quinary

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All these modes of expression are strictly natural, and all have been found in the number scales which were, and in many cases still are, in daily use among the uncivilized races of mankind In its structure the quinary is the simplest, the most primitive, of the natural systems.

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  1. Divided in a set of five, as parts or organs of most radiates. A quinary division of segments. Adams, Manual of Nat. Hist., p. 328.
  2. In zoology, same as quinarian. Swainson's system of classification was peculiar. He endeavored to establish “circular” or quinary analogies throughout the animal kingdom. Amer. Nat., XXI. 889. The mischief caused by this theory of a Quinary System [in zoölogy] was very great, but was chiefly confined to Britain. A. Newton, Encyc. Brit, XVIII. 15.
  3. Quinary system, or quinary classification. See quinarian.

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  1. = French quinaire = Spanish Portuguese Italian quinario, from L, quinarius, containing five, from quini, five each, from quinque, five, = English five.
 

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