quintate

verb

1. (obsolete, rare)To seize or destroy one fifth (of something).

adj

1. (alt-of, misconstruction, not-comparable)Misconstruction of quinate.

   “Potentilla Reptans, Cinquefoil, a…European herb, with leaves which are usually quintate, and have thus given origin to the ordinary name of the plant.”

   “The radical leaves…are ternate or quintate, with lobed and dentate leaflets.”

   “The large quintate leaves constitute a luxuriant, glossy green foliage.”

   “Leaves 1-2-pinnate or ternate- or quintate-pinnate, the ultimate divisions remote, linear, 1–5 cm long.”

noun

1. (alt-of, misconstruction, rare)Misconstruction of quinate.

   “As to radiates, these are ternates and quintates, two in number, From among which we “plucked the four-leaf clover.””

2. (rare)The set of the series of integers that occur between a multiple of five and the next (exclusive of those multiples).

   “We have as variations for the numbers from 6 to 9, 6 = X + 1…, 7 = X + 2, etc.,…the numerals of the second quintate repeating without the use of the expressed base five.”