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QUARTINE.
B. sb. A quartile aspect ; a quadrature.
1509 HAWF.S Past. Pleas, xxxvi. (Percy Soc.) 188 When
fyve oodies above on the heaven Wente . . retrogarde With
divers quartils. 1621 BURTON Anal. Mel. I. i. i.
i, The
Heauens threaten vs with their, .oppositions, quartiles, and
such vnfriendly aspects. 1686 GOAD Celest. Bodies I. vi. 22
The Full Moon, the Interlunia, and the Quartiles. 1768
SMEATON in Phil. 7'rans. LVIII. 163 Let the place of Mars
be observed when the Moon is nearest her quartile with
Mars. 1839 BAILEY Festus ix. (1852) 121 Your partite
quartiles, and your plastic trines, And all your Heavenly
houses and effects.
Quartine (kwg-Jtsin). rare. [f. L. quarl-us
fourth + -INE* and 6.]
1. Bat. Mirbel's name for a fourth integument
supposed by him to occur in some ovules.
1831 LINDLEY Introd. But. 158 [Quoting Mirbel], I have
only discovered the quartine in ovula of which the tercine
is incorporated at an early period with the secondine.
2. Chem. (See qnot.)
1873 RALFE Phys. Chem. p. xviii, Triads. Glycerin
Series. Quartine or Crotonylene Ci He.
Quartinva-riant. Math. [f. as prec. + IN-
VARIANT. J An invariant of the fourth degree.
1884 W. R. W. ROBERTS in Hermathena X. 182 The
evectants of the quavtinvariants of the quantics. 1885
SALMON Mod. Higher Algebra Index, Quartinvariant of
odd quantic.
t Quartle, a. Obs. rare. [a. OF. quartet,
pa. pple. of quart-, carteler to quarter.] Quartered.
1430 Liber Cocontm (1862) 37 Take fyggus quartle, and
raysyns, tho Hole dates, almondes. 4:1440 Prontp. Parv.
419/2 Quartle (S. quarteryd), quadripartite*.
So t ftuartled, Her. quartered.
Obs.
1480 CAXTON Chron. Eng. 'ccxxv. 231 The kynges armes of
fraunce quartled with the armes of englond.
Quart-major : see QUART sb? t.
Quarto (kwg-Jto). Also written 410, 4. [L.
(in) quarto, (in) the fourth (of a sheet), abl. sing,
of quartm fourth.]
1. The size of paper obtained by folding a whole
sheet twice, so as to form four leaves, in which as
a rule the height is not markedly in excess of the
breadth. Orig. and chiefly in phr. in quarto.
Quarto-sizes range from 15X11 inches (.imperial quarto)
to 7 J X 6J (pot quarto), according to the size of the original
sheet.
1589 Pappe w. Hatchet B iij, All his works bound close,
ate at least sixe sheetes in quarto. 1633 PKYNNE Histrio-m.
To Chr. Rdr., Some . . Play-books are growne from Quarto
into Folio. 1679 [see FOLIO 5]. 1710 Loml. Gaz. No. 5851/4
Sets of his Homer in . . large or small Paper, or Quarto
Royal may be had. 1793 BOSWKLL Johnson Pref. 2nd ed.,
These I have ordered to be printed separately in quarto.
1837-9 HALLAM Hist. Lit. I. i. iii. 148. 250 The Psalter of
t457 and the Donatus of the same year, are in quarto. 1898
S. LEE Life Shaks. xix. (ed. 3) 299 In 1616 there had been
printed in quarto seven editions of his '
Venus and Adonis '.
atlrib. 1868 BROWNING Ring $ Bk. i. 85 Small-quarto
size, part print part manuscript.
fig, 1640. GLAPTHORNE Wit in Constable n. Wks. 1874 I.
195 The rest were made But fooles in Quarto, but I finde
myselfe An asse in Folio.
2. A book composed of paper in this form ; a
quarto-volume.
1641 FULLER Holy f, Prof. Si. ill. xxv. 228 Those which
they bought in Folio shrink quickly into Quarto's. 17*8
POPE Dune. i. 141 Quarto's, octavo's, shape the less'ning
pyre. 1769 Junius Lett. xx. 90 The form and magnitude
of a quarto imposes upon the mind. 1839 YEOWELL Anc.
Brit. Ch. Pref. (1847) 7 His writings, .contain more matter
than would be comprised in twenty modern quartos. 1898
S. LEE LifeShaks. xix. (ed. 3) 301 These sixteen quartos were
publishers' ventures.
Comb. 1814 COLERIDGE Lett. (1895) 11.638 Of all scribblers
these agricultural quarto-mongers are the vilest.
3. attrib. or as adj. Of : paper Folded so as to
form four leaves out of the original sheet ; having
the size or shape of a quarter-sheet. Of books :
Printed on paper thus folded or having this form.
Of works : Published in
quarto.
1633 PRYNNE Histrio-m. To Chr. Rdr. i b, Farre better
paper than most Octavo or Quarto Bibles, a 1658 CLEVE-
LAND lyks, (1687) 248 Where others go before In Quarto
Pages. 1711 HEARNE CVttvtf. (O. H.SOIII. 131 These verses
I have transcrib'd in a . . Q Monthly Rev. III. 547 It appears, that hard quartzous
and sihcious stones give a reddish light. 1815 Chron. in
Ann. Reg. 540 The sand.. is quartzous.
Quartzy (kwgutsi), a. [f. as prec. + -T 1
.] Of
the nature of quartz ; resembling quartz.
'774 PENNANT Tour Scotl. in 1772, 218 The stones of this
mountain are white quartzy and composed of small grains.
1836 MACOILLIVRAY tr. Humboldfs Trav. xviii. 256 The
bottom, which consists of white quartzy sand, is usually
visible. 1880 BIRDWOOD Ind. Art \l. 4 The iron ore is ..
separated from its granitic or quartzy matrix by washing.
fig. 1864 ROGERS Nevi Ruon n. 42 He .. avows his inability
to find Another lyric in his quartzy mind.
Quarved, ? error for quarred: see QUAB v. 1
1617 JACKSON Creed vi. xii. % 9 This, .current of life, .the
more it is dammed or quarued by opposition of the sonnes of
darknesse, the more plentifully it overflowes the sons of light
t Qua-ry. 06s.-'. [? ad. L. quari wherefore.]
01550 Image Hypocr. in Sktltm't Wks. (1843) II. 427
With quibes and quaryes Of inventataries.
Quaryndo(u)n, obs. forms of QUAHENDEN.
Quas, variant of KVASH.
Quas e, obs. northern forms of WHOSE.
in JOHNSON and later Diets'] 1813 T. ROUOHLEY Jamaica
Planter's Guide 74 The Indian kale, ochro, quash, peppers,
akys, and a variety of pulse, being natural to the climate.
Quash, rf.2 rare-1 .
[Cf. WASH.] ? A stretch
of shallow water.
1790 BEATSON Nav. f, Mil. Mem. I. 69 From the report
made by those who sounded the quash opposite the town . .
there was not found water sufficient to enable them to
undertake the enterprize.
Quash (kwgj), v. Forms: 4-5 quasse, (5
qwas-), 4 quasche, 5 qv-, quasohyn, quassh-,
quaysoh-, 6- quash. [In branch I, ad. OF. quasser
= casser to annul, ad. late L. cassart (med.L. also
quassare), (. cassus null, void in branch ; II, ad. OF.
quasser, casserto break, smash, etc. : L. quassare,
freq. of quatlre to shake. In later F. the form in
all senses is casser. Senses 2 and 3 may be partly
derived from 4, and the later examples in 5 may be
partly of onomatopoeic origin. Cf. SQDASH v.]
deciman-us, f. qtiartus decimus fourteenth.]
A. si. One of those early Christians who celebrated
Easter on the day of the Jewish Passover (the
I4th of Nizan), whether this was a Sunday or not.
The practice (chiefly observed in Proconsular Asia) was
condemned by the Council of Nice, A. D. 325.
1614 DARCIB Birth of Heresies viii. 31 The Phrygian
Montanists condemne the Quartodecumans. 1641 HALES
Schism 7 Why might not it be lawful . . to celebrate Easter
with the Quartodeciman. 1709 J. JOHNSON Clergym. Vade
M. it. p. cxv, When Austin came first to this island, the
Christians he found here were Quartodecimans. 1833 J. H.
NEWMAN A Hans i. i. (1876) 13. 1883 P. SCHAFF Hist.Chnrch
1 1 . xit. Ixxxiii. 706 There is no evidence at all that the apostle
John celebrated Easter with the Quarto-decimans.
B. adj. Of or relating to the Quartodecimans, or
their method of observing Easter.
1701 ECHARD Keel. Hist. (1710) 478 The Quartodeciman
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Fields Victoria 283 Quartz reefs are richer as they increase
in depth. Ibid. 618 Quartz-boil, an outcrop of a quartz reef
on the surface, or an outburst or extension in width of the
reef beneath it 1877 RAYMOND Statist. Mines e purueiance . . He
quassed it ilk dele borgh jugement. c 1430 Pilgr. LyJ
Mankvae I. Ixxvi. (1869) 44 Michel it displeseth hire that ye
quassen thus hire ordinaunces. 1589 WARNER Alb. Eng.
vi. xxx. (1612) 151 Phcebus his plainte did quash. 1671
F. PHILLIPS Reg. Ifecess. 521 All the then Judges did agree,
that if a Writ of that Form should be brought unto them.,
they would immediately quash it. 17*8 BLACKSTONE Comm.
III. 303 Praying 'judgment of the writ, or declaration, and
that the same may be quashed ', cassetur, made void, or
abated. 1829 SCOTT Detnonol. ix. 335 The Lord Advocate . .