trismegist
(ˈtrɪsmɪgɪst)
anglicized form of L. trismegistus, Gr. τρισµέγιστος ‘thrice-greatest’ (cf. F. trismégiste), title of the Egyptian Hermes (see Hermes 3): in quots. used allusively. So trismeˈgistian, trismeˈgistic, -ical adjs., belonging or ascribed to, following, or having the character of Hermes Trismegistus.
| 1657 H. Pinnell Philos. Ref. A viij, He that listed himselfe a true Chymist, had faire hopes to become a great Trismegist. 1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. 307, Δεύτερον θεὸν, as the Hermaick or Trismegistick Writers call it, The Second God. Ibid. 323 Books, called Hermetical and Trismegistical. 1694 Motteux Rabelais v. xlvi, Is this all that the Trismegistian Bottle's Word means? 1913 19th Cent. Jan. 178 The extant tractates and fragments of this Trismegistic literature. |