Third Degree Definition

noun
In Freemasonry, the degree of master mason.
Webster's New World
Harsh, grueling treatment and questioning, as of a prisoner in order to force a confession or exact information.
Webster's New World
adjective

(law) The least severe cases of murder, burglary or various other felonies.

He was recently convicted of third-degree manslaughter because of his drunken-driving accident.
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(of a burn) Causing severe scarring, loss of epidermis, subcutaneous tissue and possibly of hair, which is more damaging than first-degree, second-degree and less than fourth-degree burns.

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Origin of Third Degree

  • From Freemasonry - the intensive test to become a master mason.

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Third Degree Sentence Examples

  • First I get to third-degree a woman who just lost her husband and then I get to fight Philadelphia traffic.

  • At stated intervals to offer reverential homage and oblations of food to the forefathers up to the third degree is one of the most sacred duties the devout Hindu has to discharge.

  • Quite apart from the danger of third-degree burns, balti dishes serve only to make one's portions appear minuscule.

  • Sarah wasted no time beginning her third degree.

  • A law passed in May 1908 against nepotism (closely following the Texas law of 1907) forbids public officers to appoint (or vote for) any person related to them by affinity or consanguinity within the third degree to any position in the government of which they are a part; makes persons thus related to public officers ineligible to positions in the branch in which their relative is an official; and renders any official making such an appointment liable to fine and removal from office.

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