a. and sb. Obs. Also 6 quinquinall. [ad. L. quinquennāl-is: cf. F. quinquennal.] a. adj. QUINQUENNIAL. b. sb. = QUINQUENNIUM.
1532. [see QUINQUENNIAL a. 1].
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 543. At what time as … the two Censors held their Quinquennall solemne sacrifices.
1618. Bolton, Florus (1636), 114–5. At the Quinquennal, or five-yeerely playes!
a. 1646. J. Gregory, Posthuma, De Æris et Epochis (1649), 140. Allowing for each of those a Lustrum or Quinquennal.
