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quintate

adj · noun · verb · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • Received-Pronunciation, UK: kwĭnʹtāt
  • Received-Pronunciation, UK: /ˈkwɪnteɪt/

1

adj

Meaning 1

Misconstruction of quinate.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, misconstruction, not-comparable

Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences

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2

noun

Meaning 2

Misconstruction of quinate.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, misconstruction, rare

Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences

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3

noun

Meaning 3

The set of the series of integers that occur between a multiple of five and the next (exclusive of those multiples).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: rare

Topics: mathematics, sciences

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4

verb

Meaning 4

To seize or destroy one fifth (of something).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, rare

Examples

  • 1812, Emanuel Swedenborg [aut.] and J. Clowes [tr.], Arcana Cœlestia VII (2nd ed.), chapter xli, pages 210(1) and 270(2) (1) Let Pharaoh...quintate^✸ the land of Egypt in the seven years of abundance of provision. ✸ 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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History

Etymology

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.