quintipartiteadj.
/ˌkwɪntɪˈpɑːtʌɪt/, U.S. /ˌkwɪn(t)əˈpɑrˌtaɪt/ Divided into five parts.
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1551 J. Williams Acct. Monastic Treasures (1836) 24 An Indenture quintipartite.
1676 G. Carteret et al. Deed 1 July in W. A. Whitehead Documents Colonial Hist. New Jersey (1880) I. 205 This Indenture Quintipartite made the First day of July Anno Dom 1676.
1897 Amer. Hist. Rev. 2 656 Under the terms of the Quintipartite Deed what had been Berkeley's undivided half became West Jersey.
1998 T. D. Hau in K. J. Button & E. T. Verhoef Road Pricing, Traffic Congestion & Environment iv. 69 The idea..would enable us to satisfy the quintipartite principles of the World Bank's general guidelines for improving transport efficiency.
Derivatives
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > five > [noun] > division into five
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quintipartitiona1690
a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 33 Quintipartition, or to divide by 5 may likewise be effected thus.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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