Meaning of quintate | Babel Free

Definitions

To seize or destroy one fifth (of something).

obsolete, rare

Examples

“1812, Emanuel Swedenborg [aut.] and J. Clowes [tr.], Arcana Cœlestia VII (2nd ed.), chapter xli, pages 210⁽¹⁾ and 270⁽²⁾ ⁽¹⁾ Let⟳ Pharaoh…quintate^✸ the land⟳ of Egypt in the seven years of abundance of provision. ✸ Quintate signifies to take⟳ a fifth of any thing, and is derived from the Latin quintus, signifying a fifth, as decimate is derived from decimus, signifying a tenth. ⁽²⁾ “And let⟳ him quintate the land⟳” — that hereby is signified which were to be preserved and afterwards stored up, appears from the signification of quintating, as here involving the like⟳ with decimating.”

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