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Definition of Quincunxes
1. quincunx [n] - See also: quincunx
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quincunxes
Literary usage of Quincunxes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge (1853)
"The number of apple and pear trees, which are planted along the roads, round the
fields, or in quincunxes, amounts to several millions. ..."
2. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1905)
"In this garden the trees were arranged in fives, in the form of quincunxes (ie
like pips on a playing-card), and, to use the words of Samuel Taylor ..."
3. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836)
"You have quincunxes in heaven above, ... in earth below, and quincunxes in the
water beneath the earth ... quincunxes in the mind of man, ..."
4. Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth, and Characters of by William Hazlitt (1890)
"You have quincunxes in heaven above; ... in earth below; and quincunxes in the
water under the earth: ... quincunxes in the mind of man; ..."
5. The Miscellaneous Works by William Hazlitt (1854)
"In the words of Sir T. Brown (which will serve as a fine specimen of his manner,) '
But the quincunxes of Heaven (the hyades, or five stars about the ..."
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