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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of a body of Montanists, said to have been so called from a prophetess Quintilla.

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  • If you read through all the inches of the latest dispatch from Zimbabwe, you may have learned that Mugabe stole last year's presidential election; that the annual inflation rate in Zimbabwe has reached 516 quintillian percent; and that seven of that country's 12 million people risk starving in the next two months.

    Marty Kaplan: Compassion Fatigue 2009

  • If you read through all the inches of the latest dispatch from Zimbabwe, you may have learned that Mugabe stole last year's presidential election; that the annual inflation rate in Zimbabwe has reached 516 quintillian percent; and that seven of that country's 12 million people risk starving in the next two months.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

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