Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Occurring or recurring every fifth day, both days being counted, as on Sunday and Thursday: as, a quintan fever.
- noun An intermittent fever the paroxysms of which recur every fifth day.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
recurring afterfour days (every five days)
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Examples
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The true tertian comes quickly to a crisis, and is not fatal; but the quintan is the worst of all, for it proves fatal when it precedes an attack of phthisis, and when it supervenes on persons who are already consumptive.
Of The Epidemics 2007
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The first begins with the name of the month; then follows the number of days; then the nones, which in eight months of the year fall on the fifth day, and were thence called quintanæ -- in the others on the seventh, and were, therefore, called septimanæ.
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