Definition of "tertiaries" [tertiaries]

• Plural form of tertiary. (noun)

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• "Several religious congregations are called tertiaries of"
• "These are what Burton identifies as the tertiaries,11 the brokers between organizational networks. 12 In each of these examples, there are leadership roles whose value and appropriateness depend upon the state of the network."
• "a Third Order for lay people as a regularly organized confraternity anywhere else, though we learn from documents that single individuals were termed tertiaries among the Indians."