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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Quinternion, n. [f. L. quinque five, or quintus fifth, after e.m.E. quaternion a gathering of four sheets (1625). (Cf. also mod. L. quinterna quire, gathering (1538).)] A gathering of five sheets of paper folded once, as a subdivision of a quire. —Urquhart Jewel in Wks. (M.C. 1834) 189.
Manuscripts in folio to the quantity of sixscore and eight quires and a half divided into six hundred fourty and two quinternions and upwards the quinternion consisting of five sheets and the quire of five and twenty Ib. 190.
