erroneously used in combs. in place of QUINQU(E)-, as quintangular, quintennial, † quintpartite. (Cf. QUINTI-)
1687. [Penn], Good Advice, 52. The Indenture will at least be, quint-pertite, and Parties are not so mortal as Men.
1787. M. Cutler, in Life, Jrnls. & Corr. (1888), I. 206. Large timbers, laid … so as to make the form of the wells quintangular.
1871. Daily News, 14 Aug., 4/5. A system of annual, triennial, or quintennial Parliaments.
1894. Westm. Gaz., 5 April, 2/1. The Quintangular Tournament which followed this event.
