Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Once in five years; during a period of five years.
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- adverb Every
five years .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Each of the new Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan are to be paid a per capita allowance on a minimum population of 250,000, increasing quinquennially from 1901 until a maximum population of 800,000 souls is attained-twice that in the Maritime Provinces, and but little over one-half of that in Ontario.
North-West Autonomy 1905
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How rapidly the traffic attracted by the economy in distance thus effected has developed, is best illustrated by the following statement, taken quinquennially from the company's returns:
East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan Frederic Courtland Penfield 1888
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It is hoped that, unlike the earlier edition, it will be subjected to continual updating, if not annually then at least quinquennially.
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