sb. and a. Obs. Also 5 quartenare, 7 -ainary. [ad. late L. quartānāri-us (in sense A. a): see prec. and -ARY.]
A. sb. a. One who has a quartan fever or ague. b. = QUARTAN sb. rare.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 419/1. Quartenare, or þat hathe þe quarteyne.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., VI. 223. Quartanaries … gather much crude humours.
B. adj. Pertaining to, of the nature of, a quartan fever or ague; characterized by quartans.
1669. Boyle, Contn. New Exp., I. 176. An odd Quartainary Distemper, that I slighted so long, as to give it time to take Root.
1679. Locke, Jrnl., 15 Nov., in Bourne, Life (1876), I. viii. 451. The constitution of this autumn was intermittent and quartanary, though many of the fevers … were continued and several made so by ill management.
