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QUINCUNCIALLY.<br />
f Quincu-pedal, sb. and a. Obs. rare~. [a.<br />
L. quinatpedal var. quinquepedal: see QTJINQUEand<br />
PEDAL.] (See quots.)<br />
1656 BLOUNT Glossogr., Quincupedal, a measure or rule of<br />
five foot long. 1658 PHILLIPS, Quincupcdal, having five feet,<br />
or of the measure of five feet.<br />
t Qurncuple, a. Obs. rare- 1 , [ad. L. quincuplex,<br />
f. quinqtte five-t-//iV- fold.] QUINTUPLE.<br />
1774 MITFORD Ess. Harmony Lang. 276 The sescuplex,<br />
which we should, by analogy, perhaps rather call quincuple<br />
time, as it would make a bar of five equal notes.<br />
tQuincu-rion. Obs. rare- 1 , [f. L. quinque five,<br />
after decurion.~\ A leader of five men. So-fftuin-<br />
cury, a body of five men. Obs. rare 1 .<br />
1631 HOLLAND Cyrufxdia $, The best Decurions should be<br />
advanced to the rowme of Caporals : and the Quincurions<br />
likewise to the leading of Decuries. Ibid., That the Quincury<br />
under his charge may be like unto himselfe.<br />
Quincy, obs. form of QUINSY.<br />
Qui'ndecad. rare-1 , [f. L. quindec-im after<br />
decad.} A set of fifteen.<br />
1855 W. H. MILL Afflic. Panth. Princ. (1861) 154 The<br />
first quindecad is accurate according to the Old Testament<br />
genealogies.<br />
Quindecagon (kwinde-kagffo). Geom. Also<br />
7 -gone, 8 -deka-. [irreg. f. L. quindecim, after<br />
decagon, dodecagon : see -OON. So F. quindecagone]<br />
A plane figure having fifteen angles.<br />
'570 BILLINGSLEY Euclid iv. xvL 124 In a circle geuen<br />
to describe a quindecagon or figure of fiftene angles. 1651<br />
i. RUDD Enclide 179 In a given Circle to inscribe a Quindecagon.<br />
a 1696 SCARBURGH Eucliddjo^l 174 The Quindecagon<br />
is the only derivative Polygon that Euclide thought<br />
CI<br />
'J ;? s s to be consi
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