quintating

Verb

quintate (present participle quintating)

1. (obsolete, rare) To seize or destroy one fifth (of something).
   • ⁽¹⁾ Let Pharaoh…quintate^✸ the land of Egypt in the seven years of abundance of provision.
   • ✸ Quintate signifies to take a fifth of any thing, and is derived from the Latin quintus, signifying a fifth, as decimate is derived from decimus, signifying a tenth.
   • ⁽²⁾ “And let him quintate the land” — that hereby is signified which were to be preserved and afterwards stored up, appears from the signification of quintating, as here involving the like with decimating.1812, Emanuel Swedenborg [aut.] and J. Clowes [tr.], Arcana Cœlestia VII (2nd ed.), chapter xli, pages 210⁽¹⁾ and 270⁽²⁾

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