单词 | quinquennium |
释义 | quinquenniumn. A period or term of five years.Formerly, in Law: †a five year period allowed for the repayment of debt (obsolete). 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 1621 B. Jonson Gypsies Metamorph. in Wks. (Rtldg.) 619/1 He..looks as if he never saw his quinquennium. 1654 E. Wolley tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Curia Politiæ 77 I am but young, and have not seen more then a Quinquennium of my reign. 1703 R. Fleming Pract. Disc. Occas. Death King William (ed. 2) 154 If Nero himself had died in the beginning of his Reign, or before his Quinquennium was run out, he had been rankt among the best Emperors. a1772 Ess. from Batchelor (1773) II. 204 In the quinquenium [sic] of Lord Townshend's administrations. 1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Quinquennium, a respite of five years, which insolvent debtors formerly obtained, by virtue of the King's letter, to have time for the payment of their debts. 1851 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 14 1 The quinquennium 1840–45 is the most favourable in that point of view. 1879 W. Gladstone in 19th Cent. Sept. 580 The last quinquennium of trade does not exhibit an increase. 1908 Daily Chron. 29 May 5/7 Sir Edward Grey, who is mainly responsible for the ratification by this country of the Additional Act extending the Convention for another quinquennium. 1989 Internat. Jrnl. Epidemiol. 18 466/1 Maternal mortality rates and numbers of events for the two quinquennia 1960–64 and 1975–79 are presented in Table 1. 2005 L. Holford-Strevens Hist. Time vi. 94 The inscription itself presents a quinquennium or 5-year cycle of 62 lunar months. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1621 |
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