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quint-
erroneously used in combs. in place of quinque-, as quintangular, quintennial, † quintpartite. (Cf. quinti-.)
1687Good Advice 52 The Indenture will at least be, quint⁓pertite, and Parties are not so mortal as Men. 1787M. Cutler in Life, Jrnls. & Corr. (1888) I. 206 Large timbers, laid..so as to make the form of the wells quintangular. 1871Daily News 14 Aug., A system of annual, triennial, or quintennial Parliaments. 1894Westm. Gaz. 5 Apr. 2/1 The Quintangular Tournament which followed this event. |