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quincuncial Feb 29th 2012, 20:14 ‎Adjective: ← Older revision Revision as of 20:14, 29 February 2012 Line 11: Line 11:       # Arranged in a [[quincunx]].   # Arranged in a [[quincunx]]. − #* '''1658''': Of this '''Quincunciall''' Ordination the Ancients practised much, discoursed little — Sir Thomas Browne, ''The Garden of Cyrus'' (Folio Society 2007, p. 169) + #*'''1658''', {{w|Sir Thomas Browne}}, ''The Garden of Cyrus'', Folio Society 2007, p. 169:   + #*:Of this '''Quincunciall''' Ordination the Ancients practised much, discoursed little [...].   + #*'''1985''', {{w|Lawrence Durrell}}, ''Quinx'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet''), p. 1297:   + #*:In architecture the '''quincunxial''' shape was considered a sort of housing for the divine power – a battery, if you like, which gathered into itself the divinity as it tried to pour earthward, to earth itself – just like an electrical current does.       [[kn:quincuncial]]   [[kn:quincuncial]]

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