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Citations:quintate Jul 27th 2011, 09:17 +3 citations (1851, 1880, 1882) ← Older revision Revision as of 09:17, 27 July 2011 Line 5: Line 5: *:: <small>✸ It may be expedient to inform the unlearned reader, that '''''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''.</small> *:: <small>✸ It may be expedient to inform the unlearned reader, that '''''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''.</small> *: ⁽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 [tithing or taking a tenth]<!-- præceding brackets sic; following brackets indicate the substitution of a period for a comma -->[.] *: ⁽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 [tithing or taking a tenth]<!-- præceding brackets sic; following brackets indicate the substitution of a period for a comma -->[.]   + * '''1851''', "The Dispensatory of the United States of America" (9ᵗʰ ed.<sup>?</sup>), quoted in the ''Journal of Materia Medica'', volume 14 (1875), <span class="plainlinks">[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2btHAAAAYAAJ&q=%2Bquintate&dq=%2Bquintate&hl=en&ei=blUvTpWgE8fRsgazuvwg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CEIQ6AEwAw page 49]</span>   + *: ''Potentilla Reptans'', ''Cinquefoil'', a perennial, creeping, 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'' (G.S. Davis), <span class="plainlinks">[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=F6t9m1l2QWQC&q=%2Bquintate&dq=%2Bquintate&hl=en&ei=blUvTpWgE8fRsgazuvwg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAQ page 127]</span>   + *: The radical leaves, stand on long footstalks, are ternate or '''quintate''', with lobed and dentate leaflets.   + * '''1882''', ''Vick's Monthly Magazine'' (J. Vick), volume 5, <span class="plainlinks">[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Hj1JAAAAMAAJ&q=%2Bquintate&dq=%2Bquintate&hl=en&ei=Z9MvTqLtAs-78gO3k4BE&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAw page 167]</span>   + *: The large '''quintate''' leaves constitute a luxuriant, glossy green foliage, admirably adapted for covering walls and making unsightly outhouses beautiful and inviting to the eye.

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