Quintate

Pronunciation

• RP enPR: kwÄ­nʹtāt, IPA: en, /ˈkwɪnteɪt/

Origin

First attested in verbal use in 1812, in adjectival use in 1851, and in nominal use in 1889; from the Classical Latin quīntus ("fifth"); in the verbal sense after decimate, and in the botanic senses by mistaken analogy with ternate.

Verb

1. (obsolete, rare) seize or destroy one fifth (of something).
• 1812, Emanuel Swedenborg aut. and J. Clowes tr., VII (2nd ed.), chapter xli, pages

• ⁽¹⁾ Let Pharaoh…quintate

• ✸ Quintate signifies to take a fifth of any thing, and is derived from the Latin quintus, signifying a fifth, as decimate is derived from decimus, signifying a tenth.⁽²⁾ “And let him quintate the land” — that hereby is signified which were to be preserved and afterwards stored up, appears from the signification of quintating, as here involving the like with decimating.

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Derived terms

• quintation rare

Full definition of quintate

Adjective

1. (botany) An erroneous formation where quinate is meant.
• 1851, “The Dispensatory of the United States of America” (9th ed.^?), quoted in the Journal of Materia Medica XIV (1875), page 49Potentilla Reptans, Cinquefoil, a…European herb, with leaves which are usually quintate, and have thus given origin to the ordinary name of the plant.
• 1880, Lucius Elmer Sayre, Conspectus of Organic Materia Medica and Pharmacal Botany, page 127The radical leaves…are ternate or quintate, with lobed and dentate leaflets.
• 1882, Vick’s Monthly Magazine V, page 167The large quintate leaves constitute a luxuriant, glossy green foliage.
• 1952, Ray Joseph Davis, Flora of Idaho, page 515Leaves 1-2-pinnate or ternate- or quintate-pinnate, the ultimate divisions remote, linear, 1–5 cm long.

Noun

1. (botany, rare) An erroneous formation where quinate is meant.
• 1889, Report of Proceedings … at the … Annual Meeting …^? X–XVI,

• As to radiates, these are ternates and quintates, two in number,
  From among which we “plucked the four-leaf clover.”
1. (mathematics, rare, of a quinary-decimal number system) The set of the series of integer that occur between a multiple of five and the next (exclusive of those multiples).
• 1913, W.C. Eells, “Number Systems of the North American Indians” in American Mathematical Monthly XX, page 294We have as variations for the numbers from 6 to 9, 6 = X + 1…, 7 = X + 2, etc.,…the numerals of the second quintate repeating without the use of the expressed base five.

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