Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a quincuncial manner or order.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In the manner or order of a quincunx.
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- adverb In a
quincuncial fashion.
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Examples
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An aperture two or three inches in diameter is made in each head, and then a large number of holes, half an inch in diameter, and arranged quincuncially, are bored in the staves and heads.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 Various
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They, too, have their curious carvings, consisting of deeply marked stigmata, quincuncially arranged, with each a little ring at its bottom, and, in at least one rare species, surrounded by a sculptured star.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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