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English
Etymology
From Latin quincuncialis.
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Adjective
quincuncial (comparative more quincuncial, superlative most quincuncial)
- Arranged in a quincunx.
1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. . Chapter I.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, Together with The Garden of Cyrus, , London: Hen Brome , →OCLC, page 98:Of this Quincunciall Ordination the Ancients practiſed much[,] diſcourſed little; […]
1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1297:In architecture the quincunxial shape was considered a sort of housing for the divine power – a battery, if you like, which gathered into itself the divinity as it tried to pour earthward, to earth itself – just like an electrical current does.
- (botany) Having the leaves of a pentamerous calyx or corolla so imbricated that two are exterior, two are interior, and the other has one edge exterior and one interior.
quincuncial aestivation
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