tertiate
To increase by half as much again; especially to increase the price in this way.
obsolete
The beam made for triplicating or tertiating any weight small enough to be weighed by it.
To do or perform three times or for the third time.
obsolete, rare
When you consult vvith me about the Personage that should first, or second, or tertiate your business with the King, I must answer as Demosthenes did of Action; My Lord Thresorer, My Lord Thresorer , and so again.
To divide into three parts, especially to divide into thirds.
To the point where now we are - unless people can have the resources and can pay for the resources of what we used to call tertiated medical centers, people are deprived and their expectations certainly are not met.
To examine, as the thickness of the metal at the muzzle of a gun; or, in general, to examine the thickness of, as ordnance, in order to ascertain its strength.
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin tertiāt-, the perfect passive participial stem of Latin tertiō, from tertius (“third”). By surface analysis, terti- + -ate.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry tertiate (CC BY-SA 4.0).