quintal (kwintal)

[ Also kintal, and formerly kental, kintle, early mod. E. kyntayl; quintal wa dupois. The quintal métrique , or modern quintal, is 100 kilograms, or about 220 pounds avoirdupois. I give this jewel to thee, richly worth A quintal or an hundred-weight of gold. tain. a. Chapman , Blind Beggar of Alexandria. quintan (kwin'tan), a . and n. [L. quintan us , pertaining to the fifth, quint us , fifth, que E. five : see five . Cf. quintain .] Occurring or recurring every fifth day, both days being counted, as on Sunday and Thursday: as, a quintan fever. = 2. In music , same as fifth , 2. quintain. sence. Here first are born the spirits animal, Whose matter, almost immaterial, Resembles heaven's matter quinte ential . P. Fletcher, Purple Island, v. Our states, I have always contended, our various phases, have to be pa ed through, and there is no disgrace in it so long as they do not levy toll on the quinte ential , the spiritual element. G. Meredith, The Egoist, xiv. quint e entialize (kwin-te-sen's hal-iz), v. t.; pret. and pp. quint e entialized, ppr. quintes sen tializing. [ Their [the Jews'] national egotism, quint e entialized in the prophets, was especially sympathetic with the personal egotism of Milton. Lowell , Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 273.