quadrennialn.adj.

Brit.

/kwɒˈdrɛnɪəl/,

/kwəˈdrɛnɪəl/, U.S.

/kwɑˈdrɛniəl/

Forms:

α. 1600s quadrianiall, 1600s quadriennal, 1600s– quadriennial.

β. 1600s– quadrennial, 1900s– quadrenial (nonstandard).

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin quadriennialis.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin quadriennialis four-yearly (14th cent. in British sources), lasting for four years (16th cent.) < classical Latin quadriennium quadrennium n. + -ālis -al suffix¹; with the loss of the vowel in the second syllable in the β. forms compare quadri- comb. form and -ennial comb. form, and compare later quadrennium n. Compare French quadriennal (adjective) four-yearly (1652), lasting for four years (1869).

A. n.

1. A period of four years; spec. the period between events which occur every four years. Cf. quadrennium n. Now chiefly North American (rare before 20th cent.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years

hendecadOE

a week of yearsa1382

weekc1384

Olympiada1387

lustre1387

yearc1425

millenary1551

prenticeship1553

septenary1576

lustrum1590

quinquennal1590

seventy1590

septimane1603

quinquennie1606

threescore (years) and tena1616

duodecad1621

quinquennium1621

jubilee1643

quadrenniala1646

chiliad1653

septennary1659

septennium1660

triennial1661

millennium1664

tetraëterid1678

octennial1679

duodenary1681

quadrennium1779

septenniad1836

quinquenniad1842

milliad1843

tricentenary1846

triennium1847

vicennium1847

bimillenary1850

lustration1853

sexennium1858

septennate1874

quinquennial1877

pentad1880

sexennate1898

aeon1960

a1646 J. Gregory Posthuma (1649) 163 The Egyptians called everie daie in the year by the Name of som God..and everie year of their Lustrum's or Quadriennals in like manner.

1964 Newark (Ohio) Advocate & Amer. Tribune 6 Oct. 4/3 Excluding the first five, when the nation was in its formative years, 19 elections came in quadrennials marked by general business expansion and eight in recession years.

2004 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 29 Feb. 1 It's a once-in-a-quadrennial kind of day, but until 1996, Leap Years came and went for Glenn and Michelle, and Feb. 29 was just another day.

2006 Assoc. Press Online (Nexis) 18 Feb. When that '92 Dream Team came in, everybody thought the U.S. would dominate for the next 40 years. In our sport, it's going to take a bit longer, but it's going to tighten up..as the quadrennials go by.

2. An event occurring every four years. Chiefly North American.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years > something occurring every specific number of years

septennual1641

quadrennial1856

biennale1968

biennial1981

1856 Sat. Rev. 8 Nov. 625/2 The great quadrennial—the Presidential election—is the ‘Derby Day’ of America.

1893 New Eng. Mag. Apr. 218/2 Certainly money will be spent unnecessarily and wastefully in annual political elections. So it would be in biennials, or quadrennials.

1916 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Jrnl.-Gaz. 9 Sept. 4/4 Fifteen quadrennials have winged their flight and each has seen a stronger plate of steel set against the citadel of plutocracy.

1941 Garfieldian (Chicago) 6 Mar. 1/2 Assessments [of taxation on real estate]..made between quadrennials, include changes only on properties which have undergone a physical change in value.

1961 D. B. Meyer Protestant Search for Polit. Realism 1919–41 ii. 40 The federation..held its own conferences—the quadrennials in Evanston, 1922, 1926, 1930, constituting leading events of the social gospel.

2005 Winnipeg Sun (Nexis) 14 May s16 Duerden never formally retired but he told national team head coach Stelio DeRocco after the last quadrennial that he was done.

3. A fourth anniversary; a fourth year. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun] > specific anniversaries

jubileec1386

quinquagenary1588

centenary1661

millennium1664

secular1706

coming of age1788

centennial1791

tricentenary1846

tercentenary1855

quinquennial1857

ter-millenary1864

sexcentenary1865

semi-centenary1870

bicentenary1872

septcentenary1873

quincentenary1877

sesquicentennial1880

quadricentennial1882

bicentennial1883

quatercentenary1883

tricentennial1883

tercentennial1884

quincentennial1885

octocentenary1888

quadrennial1890

quingentenary1892

octingentenary1893

ruby anniversary1893

semi-jubilee1893

septingentenary1893

millennial1896

millenary1897

quadringenary1905

quingenary1911

bimillenary1961

sesquicentenary1961

quasquicentennial1962

nongenary1966

octocentennial1994

1890 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) Quadrennial... A fourth anniversary, or its celebration.

1943 J. Borkin & C. A. Welsh Germany's Master Plan xxii. 309 As American troops swarmed into Africa,..Germany was once more faced, as in 1918, with the fearful quadrennial of War—that ‘fourth year’ which every German general viewed aghast.

B. adj.

1. Lasting for or relating to a period of four years.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > year > [adjective] > lasting for several years > that lasts a specific number of years

seven yeara1393

quinquenniala1475

triennial1641

septennary1644

biennial1645

septenarian1647

septennial1648

diennial1656

quadrennial1656

trienniated1661

quintennial1687

semi-millenary1728

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Quadriennial, of four years.

1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. xxii. 432 Quadrennial prescription of the priviledge to reduce deeds of Minors intra quadrennium utile.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Quadrennial, of the Space of four Years.

1760 C. Lucas Seasonable Advice to Electors 55 To endeavour to bring parlements nearer the primitive institution, by making them, instead of perrennial,..triennial, or quadrennial at the most, by a new law.

1778 E. Middleton et al. New Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. I. at Calendar This correction of the Julian calendar disposes the year into quadrennial periods.

1839 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 1 520 The increase was 11 per cent. compared with 1836, and 35 per cent. compared with the quadrennial average.

1881 Daily News 11 Mar. 6/2 Biennial Budgets and quadrennial Parliaments.

1945 V. Ferm Encycl. Relig. 12 Its [sc. the Alliance of Reformed Churches] general councils are quadrennial.

1972 Ruston (Louisiana) Daily Leader 23 Aug. 1/1 10 million dollars must be raised by the VSOC for the current quadrennial period of 1969–1972.

2004 Ventura County (Calif.) Star (Nexis) 25 July 9 The conventions used to be the most important political event of the quadrennial term.

2. Occurring every four years.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > year > [adjective] > occurring every specific number of years

quinquennal1532

quinquennial1601

five-yearly1619

centenary1620

septennial1640

triannual1640

triennial1642

septennary1644

sexennial1646

trieterical1646

novennial1656

octennial1656

trieteric1656

quinquennalian1692

quadrenniala1700

biennial1750

sexennary1753

lustral1781

centennial1797

quaternal1813

sextennial1814

septendecennial1834

septemdecenary1843

undecennarya1847

bicentenary1862

bicentennial1883

quadricentennial1889

trigintennial1894

twelve-yearly1906

vigintennial1921

a1700 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1911) 9 367 The comunity..continued her in the office of the V R^d Mother Prioresse by Quadrianiall Elections 12 years.

1701 W. Wotton Hist. Rome iii. 46 Their Accounts of Time were reckoned by the Quadriennial Returns of the Grand Games.

a1727 I. Newton Chronol. Anc. Kingdoms Amended (1728) i. 62 Oxylus restored the Olympic games: and after they had been again intermitted, Iphitus their King restored them, and made them quadrennial.

1800 T. Jefferson Let. 26 Mar. in Papers (2004) XXXI. 464 Our quadrennial election is till 9. months distant.

1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece IV. ii. xxviii. 92 Peisistratus..first added the quadrennial or greater Panathenæa to the ancient annual or lesser Panathenæa.

1880 Times 27 Sept. 8/1 The Archbishop of Canterbury..continuing his quadrennial visitation of his diocese.

1942 S. H. Chamberlain & D. H. Moffat Fair is our Land Introd. 11 The quadrennial debauch we call Election Day.

1976 New Yorker 8 Mar. 119/2 People tire of quadrennial invasions by hordes of outside politicians, Secret Service agents, reporters, and television crews.

1996 R. H. Bork Slouching towards Gomorrah ii. xiii. 270 Our quadrennial presidential debates are not the displays of reasoning and sustained argument that the Lincoln-Douglas debates were.

Derivatives

quaˈdrennially adv. every four years.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > year > [adverb] > every specific number of years

triennially1689

quinquennially1727

septennially1729

biennially1775

quadrennially1785

sexennially1824

millennially1851

octennially1854

decennially1874

1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia xiii. 210 The Senate [of Virginia]..chosen quadrennially.

1848 Times 6 June 7/1 The Executive power will..be composed of a President elected..quadrennially.

1998 M. Polley Moving Goalposts ii. 43 The three events so far [sc. the Rugby Union World Cup], held quadrenially in Australia and New Zealand, the Five Nations, and South Africa, have demonstrated the sport's standing.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	quadrennial
释义	quadrennialn.adj. Brit. /kwɒˈdrɛnɪəl/, /kwəˈdrɛnɪəl/, U.S. /kwɑˈdrɛniəl/ Forms: α. 1600s quadrianiall, 1600s quadriennal, 1600s– quadriennial. β. 1600s– quadrennial, 1900s– quadrenial (nonstandard). Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin quadriennialis. Etymology: < post-classical Latin quadriennialis four-yearly (14th cent. in British sources), lasting for four years (16th cent.) < classical Latin quadriennium quadrennium n. + -ālis -al suffix¹; with the loss of the vowel in the second syllable in the β. forms compare quadri- comb. form and -ennial comb. form, and compare later quadrennium n. Compare French quadriennal (adjective) four-yearly (1652), lasting for four years (1869). A. n. 1. A period of four years; spec. the period between events which occur every four years. Cf. quadrennium n. Now chiefly North American (rare before 20th cent.). ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years hendecadOE a week of yearsa1382 weekc1384 Olympiada1387 lustre1387 yearc1425 millenary1551 prenticeship1553 septenary1576 lustrum1590 quinquennal1590 seventy1590 septimane1603 quinquennie1606 threescore (years) and tena1616 duodecad1621 quinquennium1621 jubilee1643 quadrenniala1646 chiliad1653 septennary1659 septennium1660 triennial1661 millennium1664 tetraëterid1678 octennial1679 duodenary1681 quadrennium1779 septenniad1836 quinquenniad1842 milliad1843 tricentenary1846 triennium1847 vicennium1847 bimillenary1850 lustration1853 sexennium1858 septennate1874 quinquennial1877 pentad1880 sexennate1898 aeon1960 a1646 J. Gregory Posthuma (1649) 163 The Egyptians called everie daie in the year by the Name of som God..and everie year of their Lustrum's or Quadriennals in like manner. 1964 Newark (Ohio) Advocate & Amer. Tribune 6 Oct. 4/3 Excluding the first five, when the nation was in its formative years, 19 elections came in quadrennials marked by general business expansion and eight in recession years. 2004 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 29 Feb. 1 It's a once-in-a-quadrennial kind of day, but until 1996, Leap Years came and went for Glenn and Michelle, and Feb. 29 was just another day. 2006 Assoc. Press Online (Nexis) 18 Feb. When that '92 Dream Team came in, everybody thought the U.S. would dominate for the next 40 years. In our sport, it's going to take a bit longer, but it's going to tighten up..as the quadrennials go by. 2. An event occurring every four years. Chiefly North American. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years > something occurring every specific number of years septennual1641 quadrennial1856 biennale1968 biennial1981 1856 Sat. Rev. 8 Nov. 625/2 The great quadrennial—the Presidential election—is the ‘Derby Day’ of America. 1893 New Eng. Mag. Apr. 218/2 Certainly money will be spent unnecessarily and wastefully in annual political elections. So it would be in biennials, or quadrennials. 1916 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Jrnl.-Gaz. 9 Sept. 4/4 Fifteen quadrennials have winged their flight and each has seen a stronger plate of steel set against the citadel of plutocracy. 1941 Garfieldian (Chicago) 6 Mar. 1/2 Assessments [of taxation on real estate]..made between quadrennials, include changes only on properties which have undergone a physical change in value. 1961 D. B. Meyer Protestant Search for Polit. Realism 1919–41 ii. 40 The federation..held its own conferences—the quadrennials in Evanston, 1922, 1926, 1930, constituting leading events of the social gospel. 2005 Winnipeg Sun (Nexis) 14 May s16 Duerden never formally retired but he told national team head coach Stelio DeRocco after the last quadrennial that he was done. 3. A fourth anniversary; a fourth year. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun] > specific anniversaries jubileec1386 quinquagenary1588 centenary1661 millennium1664 secular1706 coming of age1788 centennial1791 tricentenary1846 tercentenary1855 quinquennial1857 ter-millenary1864 sexcentenary1865 semi-centenary1870 bicentenary1872 septcentenary1873 quincentenary1877 sesquicentennial1880 quadricentennial1882 bicentennial1883 quatercentenary1883 tricentennial1883 tercentennial1884 quincentennial1885 octocentenary1888 quadrennial1890 quingentenary1892 octingentenary1893 ruby anniversary1893 semi-jubilee1893 septingentenary1893 millennial1896 millenary1897 quadringenary1905 quingenary1911 bimillenary1961 sesquicentenary1961 quasquicentennial1962 nongenary1966 octocentennial1994 1890 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) Quadrennial... A fourth anniversary, or its celebration. 1943 J. Borkin & C. A. Welsh Germany's Master Plan xxii. 309 As American troops swarmed into Africa,..Germany was once more faced, as in 1918, with the fearful quadrennial of War—that ‘fourth year’ which every German general viewed aghast. B. adj. 1. Lasting for or relating to a period of four years. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [adjective] > lasting for several years > that lasts a specific number of years seven yeara1393 quinquenniala1475 triennial1641 septennary1644 biennial1645 septenarian1647 septennial1648 diennial1656 quadrennial1656 trienniated1661 quintennial1687 semi-millenary1728 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Quadriennial, of four years. 1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. xxii. 432 Quadrennial prescription of the priviledge to reduce deeds of Minors intra quadrennium utile. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Quadrennial, of the Space of four Years. 1760 C. Lucas Seasonable Advice to Electors 55 To endeavour to bring parlements nearer the primitive institution, by making them, instead of perrennial,..triennial, or quadrennial at the most, by a new law. 1778 E. Middleton et al. New Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. I. at Calendar This correction of the Julian calendar disposes the year into quadrennial periods. 1839 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 1 520 The increase was 11 per cent. compared with 1836, and 35 per cent. compared with the quadrennial average. 1881 Daily News 11 Mar. 6/2 Biennial Budgets and quadrennial Parliaments. 1945 V. Ferm Encycl. Relig. 12 Its [sc. the Alliance of Reformed Churches] general councils are quadrennial. 1972 Ruston (Louisiana) Daily Leader 23 Aug. 1/1 10 million dollars must be raised by the VSOC for the current quadrennial period of 1969–1972. 2004 Ventura County (Calif.) Star (Nexis) 25 July 9 The conventions used to be the most important political event of the quadrennial term. 2. Occurring every four years. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [adjective] > occurring every specific number of years quinquennal1532 quinquennial1601 five-yearly1619 centenary1620 septennial1640 triannual1640 triennial1642 septennary1644 sexennial1646 trieterical1646 novennial1656 octennial1656 trieteric1656 quinquennalian1692 quadrenniala1700 biennial1750 sexennary1753 lustral1781 centennial1797 quaternal1813 sextennial1814 septendecennial1834 septemdecenary1843 undecennarya1847 bicentenary1862 bicentennial1883 quadricentennial1889 trigintennial1894 twelve-yearly1906 vigintennial1921 a1700 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1911) 9 367 The comunity..continued her in the office of the V R^d Mother Prioresse by Quadrianiall Elections 12 years. 1701 W. Wotton Hist. Rome iii. 46 Their Accounts of Time were reckoned by the Quadriennial Returns of the Grand Games. a1727 I. Newton Chronol. Anc. Kingdoms Amended (1728) i. 62 Oxylus restored the Olympic games: and after they had been again intermitted, Iphitus their King restored them, and made them quadrennial. 1800 T. Jefferson Let. 26 Mar. in Papers (2004) XXXI. 464 Our quadrennial election is till 9. months distant. 1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece IV. ii. xxviii. 92 Peisistratus..first added the quadrennial or greater Panathenæa to the ancient annual or lesser Panathenæa. 1880 Times 27 Sept. 8/1 The Archbishop of Canterbury..continuing his quadrennial visitation of his diocese. 1942 S. H. Chamberlain & D. H. Moffat Fair is our Land Introd. 11 The quadrennial debauch we call Election Day. 1976 New Yorker 8 Mar. 119/2 People tire of quadrennial invasions by hordes of outside politicians, Secret Service agents, reporters, and television crews. 1996 R. H. Bork Slouching towards Gomorrah ii. xiii. 270 Our quadrennial presidential debates are not the displays of reasoning and sustained argument that the Lincoln-Douglas debates were. Derivatives quaˈdrennially adv. every four years. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [adverb] > every specific number of years triennially1689 quinquennially1727 septennially1729 biennially1775 quadrennially1785 sexennially1824 millennially1851 octennially1854 decennially1874 1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia xiii. 210 The Senate [of Virginia]..chosen quadrennially. 1848 Times 6 June 7/1 The Executive power will..be composed of a President elected..quadrennially. 1998 M. Polley Moving Goalposts ii. 43 The three events so far [sc. the Rugby Union World Cup], held quadrenially in Australia and New Zealand, the Five Nations, and South Africa, have demonstrated the sport's standing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.a1646
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