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quintana [CL], quintena [ME, OF quintaine, quintine < CL quintana] 1 ‘quintana’, street in Roman camp that separates the fifth and sixth maniples, where trading occurs. b market place. ~ane, fifte dæl þære strete Ælf. Gl. 145.  b 1362 unam placiam turbar’ in fiodo de Beteley quod est setuatum juxta ~anam Cracalmos AncD C 5113. 2 quintain, object for jousting at. ~anam erigi fecerat, clypeum viz. fortem posti firmiter appensum Gir. RG I 4 p. 50; s1253 juvenes Londonienses, statuto pavone pro bravio, ad ~enam vires suas et equorum cursus sunt experti M. Par. Min. III 325; s1253 juvenes Londonie, cum statuto pavone pro bravio ad stadium quod vulgariter ~ina dicitur luderent Oxnead Chr. 195. 3 (med.) fever that has a five-day cycle. sunt ‥ alie febres ‥ et earum nomina sunt ~ana, sextana Gilb. I 12. 1; febres ‥ que nominantur ab auctoribus septene, ~ene, novene Ib. 39. 2; quartana ‥ per hoc distinguitur a ~ana et a flegmatica, que est de materia grossa Gad. 15. 2.

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