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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 after four days (every five days)

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