单词 | quincuple |
释义 | quincupleadj. rare. = quintuple adj. †quincuple time = quintuple time at quintuple adj. 2 (obsolete). Quincuple Psalter n. a fivefold text of the Psalter containing the three Latin versions of Jerome, the Old Latin version, and a harmonized version, compiled by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (c1450–1536). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > five > [adjective] > fivefold fivefoldc1000 five-double1552 quintuple?1563 quintuplicate1656 quincuple1724 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > five > [adjective] > five times as much quiniblea1398 fivefold1557 quintuple?1563 quincuple1724 1724 Coles's Eng. Dict. (new ed.) Quincuple, five fold. 1774 W. Mitford Ess. Harmony Lang. 276 The sescuplex, which we should, by analogy, perhaps rather call quincuple time, as it would make a bar of five equal notes. 1914 G. V. Jourdan Movem. towards Catholic Reform Early XVI Cent. iv. 88 If he [sc. Lefèvre] therein advanced the science of textual criticism not a single step, he at least, in his Quincuple Psalter, revived the conception of it that had existed in the days of Alcuin and Theodulf. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1724 |
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