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QUINTANT.
t Qui-ntant. Obs. rare -'. [f. L. quint-us fifth,
after QUADRANT ii.l] The fifth part of a circle.
1684 J. WALLIS Angular Sections iv. 31 The same Chord
subtends on the one side to one Quintant, and on the other
side to four such.
tQui-ntary. Obs. rare- 1 ,
[f. L. fifth :
quint-us
cf. QUINARY.] A multiple of five.
1710 SHELVOCKE Artillery iv. 230 Every Number between
the Quintaries of this table.
II Quinte (kSnt). [F. : see QUINT sbl and sb. 2 ]
1. The fifth thrust or parry of the eight taught in
fencing-schools. Also attrib.
1707 SIR W. HOPE New Method Fencing iv. 58 There is
also a Quinte, or fifth Position, as they pretend, of the
Sword-Hand. 1765 ANGELO School Fencing 20 The thrust
parade, you parry seconde and flanconade. 1889 POLLOCK
Fencing 44 Quinte. The hand to the left in pronation, at
the height of the belt; the point well beyond the inside line.
f2. = QUINTAL Obs. rare- 1 .
1710 A. SEYMOUR Compl. Gamester I. 93 Cards . . which
are . . Sequents are called, either Tierces, Quartes, Quintes
. . according to their Number and Value.
Quintel(l, -en, obs. forms of QUINTAIN 1.
: Quintennial see QUINT-.
Qninterniou (kwintauni^n). [f. L. quinque
five, or quintus fifth, after quaternion] A set or
'
gathering '
of five sheets of paper.
1651 URQUHART Jewel Wks. (1834) 189 The quinternion
consisting of five sheets, and the quire of five and twenty.
1883 AXON Introd. Caxton's Chesse p. xi, The book, .consists
of eight quaternions, .and one quinternion or section of
five sheets folded together.
Quinteron, -oon, variants of QUINTBOON.
Quintessence (kwinte'sens), sb. Also 5
-essencie, quyntencense, 6 quintaessence ; Sc.
quintessance ,-iseence, queiitassens, 7 -escense.
[a. F. quintessence, f quinte essence (I4th c.), or ad.
med.L. quinta essenlia 'fifth essence'.
Metrical quots. show that during the i6-i8th c. the stress
was usually on the first and third syllables (hence the
abbrev. quintessence in Quarles), but gttinte 'ssence is found
as early as 1597 both ', stressings occur in Milton'sPar. Lost
(ill. 716 and vn. 244).]
1. The '
fifth essence '
of ancient and mediaeval
philosophy, supposed to be the substance of which
the heavenly bodies were composed, and to be
actually latent in all things, the extraction of it by
distillation or other methods being one of the great
objects of alchemy.
(1430 LYDG. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 51 Aurum potabile
. . In quyntencense, best restauracioun.
_ 1460-70 Bk. Quintessence
14 If je putte seedis or fiouris . . into oure 5 essencie
forsobe sich 5 essence 3e schulen haue berfore. 1500-20
DUNBAR Poems xxxiii. 58 Me thocht sair fassonis he assail-
3eit, To mak the quintessance, and fail^eit. 1561 EDEN
A rte Naitig. i. iv, The quint essence or fyfte substaunce, is a
body of it selfe. i6aa MALYNES Anc. Law-Merck. 256
'
This cannot bee done without proiection of the Elixar or
Quintescense vpon mettalls. 1660 tr. Paracelsus' Archidoxis
is a certain matter
I. iv. 35 The Quintessence therefore,
Corporally extracted out of all things, which Nature hath
produced. iToa tr. Le Clerc's Prim. Fathers 309 That the
Soul was of the same Nature with Heaven or of the Quint-
Essence which Heaven is made of. 1847 EMERSON Poems,
Uriel, The young deities discussed , . Orb, quintessence, and
sunbeams. 1879 Casselfs Techn. Educ. IV. 330/2 The
vivifying quintessence of the elements of Raymond Lully.
2. The most essential part of any substance, extracted
by natural or artificial processes ; a highly
refined essence or extract ; spec, in older chemistry,
an alcoholic tincture obtained by digestion at a
gentle heat.
1576 BAKER (title) tr. Gesner's New Jewell of . Health, .
treating very amplye of all Dystillations of Waters, of Oyles,
Balmes, Quintessences, etc. 1582 HESTER Seer. Phiorav.
1. xvii. 18 Then vse our Quintaessence of Wine. 1671
SALMON Syn. Med. HI. Ixxv. 671 Quintessence of Vipers., is
of wonderful virtue for purifying the blood, &c. 1709
ADDISON Tatler No. 131 F 9, I looked upon that sooty
Drug.. as the Quintessence of English Bourdeaux. 1850
ROBERTSON Serin. Ser. m. i. (1872) 3 In the drop of venom
.. there is concentrated the quintessence of a poison.
b. The most essential part or feature of some
non-material thing ; esp. the purest or most perfect
form or manifestation of some quality.
1570 R. HICHCOCK Quintess. Wit Aij, A natural! quintessence
of knowledge. 1611 CORYAT Crudities 29 Certayne
artificiall rocks, most curiously contriued by the very quintessence
of art. 1649 MILTON Eifcon. vi. 53' The Law of
England, which Lawyers say is the quintessence of reason.
'759 FRANKLIN Ess. Wks. 1840 III. 408 The last period of the
governor's message was the very quintessence of invective.
1879 FARRAR St. Paul II. iSt note. This passage contains
the very quintessence of Pauline theology.
c. The most perfect embodiment of the typical
qualities of a certain class of persons, etc.
1590 R. HARVEY PI. Perc. 8 A Quintessence of all the
picked yoouth. 1610 Histrio-m. n. 161 Heere's the very
quintessence of Duckes. 1823 SCOTT Fam. Lett. (1894) II.
xix. 176 You have escaped the quintessence of bores. 1845
JAMES Arrah Neil ii, He was the quintessence of an
ordinary-minded man.
Quintessence, v. Now rare. [f. prec. sb.
CfF. quintessencier (1611 in Cotgr.).] trans, a.
To extract the quintessence of. b. To take out of
(something) as a quintessence.
68
DRUMM. OF HAWTH. /wWks. (1711) 170 Forquintessencing
and alembicking thee, and using thee, as alchymists do
gold. 1844 For. Q. Rev. XXXIII. 186 The science of the
cook consists . . in quintessencing (so to speak) the viands.
Quintessential (kwintese-nfal), a. [f. as
QUINTESSENCE sb. + -IAL : cf. essential &iA Tf.quint-
essendel (l6th c., Pare).] Of the nature of a quintessence
; the purest or most refined of its kind.
1605 TIMME Quersit. Pref. 6 The ajthereal and quintessential
physick. 1681 H. MORE Exp. Dan. v. Notes 157
Mere Quintessential Devils, such as consist onely of envy,
pride and malice, a 1711 KEN Hymns Evang. Poet. Wks.
1721 I. 32 The.. Flow'rs..all strove their quintessential
Sweets to drain, Perfuming Earth. 1813 BYRON Juan ix.
Ixvii, A quintessential laudanum. 1887 T. A. TROLLOPE
What I remember I. ii. 48 Eldon's quintessential Toryism.
Hence ; Quintessentia-lity Quintesse utially.
1838 New Monthly Mag. LI 1 1. 304 A concentrated quintessentiality
of them alj. 1887 T. A. TROLLOPE What I
remember I. xv. 315 Quintessentially German in manner.
Quintesse ntialize, v. [f. prec. + -IZE.]
trans. To make quintessential ; to refine or purify
in the highest degree.
i8zo Examiner 7/1 Congreve in his discourses has so
distilled, re-distilled, and quintessentialized each individual
period. 1880 SWINBURNE in Forln. Rev. XXVII. 766 As he
advances in age the poet quintessentializes..his thought.
Hence Quintesse-ntialized///. a.
1847 MRS. C. CLARKE Sliaks. Prov. 7 Such quintessentialised
drops of wisdom are surely not ill stored up.
Quiiitesse-ntiate, v. rare. [f. as QUINT-
ESSENCE sb. + -ATE : cf. essentiate.~\ = QUINT-
ESSENCE v. Hence Qumtesso-ntiated ppl. a.
1606 BRETON Sidney's Ourania 3 He kens no Crotchets
of contentious breed Nor has that Quintessentiated skill.
1894 Daily Chron. ro Jan. 3 Was there ever a talent so hard
to formulate, to quirite--eiuiate, as that of Goethe?
Quintet, quintette (kwinte-t). Also 9 -tett.
[a. F. quintette, ad. It. quintetlo : see next.]
1. Mus. A composition for five voices or instru-
ments. Also attrib.
1811 L. M. HAWKINS Ctess tf Gertr. II. 67 One of the
quartet and quintet gentlemen. 1864 Home News 19 Dec.
21/1 The quintette .. which forms the first finale. 1880
Academy 13 Nov. 356 Arranged, .as a quintet for strings.
2. a. Mus. A set of five singers or players, b.
A set of five persons or things.
1881 Daily News 8 June 2/6 The Ascot Derby Stakes, for
which a quintette came to the post. 1893 Chicago Advance
7 Sept., A remarkable quintet surely, to have lived in the
same generation.
3. A cycle for five riders; a quintuplet. (Cf.
QUINT 3.) Also attrib.
1896 Westm. Gaz. 28 Oct. 7/2 We are threatened with a
'
quintet '
match, . . but we would rather be spared the sight
of two quintets racing neck and neck round a bend ! 1898
Daily News 30 June 4/5 During a cycle race . . one of the
handle bars of a quintette ridden by pacers broke.
II Quintette (kwinte-ta). ? Obs. [It., f. quinto
fifth : cf. quartetto] 1. = QUINTET i.
1792 A. YOUNG Trav. France 201 It was the Impresario
in Augusta, by .. Cimarosa; there is a quintetto in it.
1795 MASON Ch. Mus. i. 77 The finest Quintetto of Haydn.
2. = QUINTET 2 b.
1779 SHERIDAN Critic n. ii, A very orthodox quintetto !
1816 T. L. PEACOCK Headlong Hall vi, This amiable . .
quintetto were busily employed in flattering one another.
t Quintfoil, obs. variant of QUINFOIL (q.y.).
'595.*- o/Armorie 53 Flower de luce, & Quint foiles.
Quinti-, properly a comb, form of L. quint-us
fifth, but sometimes incorrectly employed in place
of QDINQUE-, as in quintiliteral, -partition, -ptd.
(Cf. QUINT-, and F. quintiforme, -section.)
1674 JEAKE Arith. (1696) 33 Quintipartition, or to divide
by 5 may likewise be effected thus. 1839 PAUU Analecta
Hebraica xxviii. 205 The so-called Quadri- and Quintiliterals
are compounds. 1889 H. MAcCoLL Mr. Strange's
Sealed Packet v. 50 All the creatures . . were quadrupeds ;
there were no quintipeds, sexipeds, or anything of that sort.
QuintlC (kwi-ntik), a. and sb. Math. [f. L.
quint-us fifth + -ic.]
A. adj. Of the fifth order or degree.
1853 SYLVESTER in Philos. Mag. May, To express the
number of distinct Quintic and Sextic invariants. 1876
CAYLEY Math. Papers (1806) X. xi A general quintic equation
is not solvable by radicals.
B. sb. A quantic or surface of the fifth degree.
1856 A. CAYLEY Wks. (1889) II. 253 In the case of a quantic
of the fifth order or quintic. 1884 W. R. W. ROBERTS
in Hertnathena X. 183 Covariants of binary quintics.
Qumtil, obs. variant of QUINTAIN!.
Quintile (kwi-ntil), a. and sb.l Astral. Also
7 -il(l. [f. L. quint-us fifth + -ILE, after
quartile.]
Quintile (aspect) : A planetary aspect, introduced
by Kepler, in which the planets are one-fifth of
a circle, or 72 degrees, distant from each other.
c 1610 SIR C. HEYDON A strol. Disc. (1650) 95 In these our
days our late Artists . . have added unto these former Aspects
three others, viz. the Quintile [etc.]. 1647 LILLY Chr.
Astral, iii. 32 A Quintill consists of two Signes twelve
degrees. 1686 GOAD Celest. Bodies i. ii. 30 This Notable
Effect may be accounted for without these Quintiles
t Quintile, sb? Obs. rare- , [ad. L. :
quinfilis
cf. prec.] July. (Blount Glossogr. 1656.) Hence
+ . Quintilian Obs. rare ~~.
16*3 COCKEKAM, Quintilian tnoncth, the moneth of July.
QUINTUPLE.
tQuinti-lle. Obs. rare
1
, [a. F. quintille
ad. 1. Sp. quinlillo quinto fifth : cf. QUADBILLE
sb.^} A form of ombre, played by five persons.
1734 R. SEYMOUR Compl. Gamester (ed. 3) i. 46 Quintille,
or Ombre by Five, from whence Quadrille has its Original.
Quiuti'Uion (kwinti'lysn). [f. L. quint-us fifth
+\m]itlion : see BiLLioN.] a. In Great Britain :
The fifth power of a million, I expressed by followed
by thirty ciphers, b. In U. S. (as in : France) The
cube of a million, or I followed by eighteen ciphers.
1674 JEAKE Arith. (1606) 14 Others, .call, .the Thirty first
place Quintillion, &c. 1841 TLTPER Twins xxii, A thousand
men in all earth's huge quintillion. 1862 SIR 11. HOLLAND
ss., Life