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QUINQUEVIRI, in Roman antiquity, an order of five priests,peculiarly appointed for the sacrifices to the dead, or celebratingthe rites of Erebus.
QUINSY, or SORE-THROAT, is an inflammation of theinternal parts of the mouth, throat, and windpipe, attended withfever. See Medicine.
QUINTAL, ['centupondium, Lat.] a hundred weight to weighwith.
QUINTEN, a town of France , in the department of the NorthCoasts, and late province of Bretagne , 8 miles S. of St. Brieux,and 200 W. of Paris .
QUINTESSENCE, in alchemy, is a mysterious term, sig-nifying the fifth or last and highest essence of power in a naturalbody.
Quintessence, in chemistry, a preparation consisting of theessential oil of some vegetable substance, mixed and incorporatedwith spirit of wine.
QUINTILE, in astronomy, an aspect of the planets whenthey are 72' degrees distant from one another, or a fifth part of thezodiac.
QUINTILIANS, a sect of ancient heretics, Unis called fromtheir piophetess Quinlilia. In this sect the women were admittedto perforin the sacerdotal and episcopal functions.
QUINT1LLANUS, Marcus Fabius, a celebrated Latin ora-tor, and tiie most judicious critic of his time, was a native of Ca-lagurris, or Calaliorra, in Spain ; and was the disciple of DomitiusAfer, who died, A. D. 59. He taught rhetoric at Rome for 20years with great applause ; and practised at the bar. Some ima-gine, hut with little foundation, that he was consul ; but it is cer-tain that he was preceptor to the grandsons of Domitian ’s sister.There is still extant his excellent work, intituled, InstitutionesOratorias, which is a treatise of rhetoric in twelve books; wherehis precepts, judgement, and taste, are justly admired. Hie workwas found by Poggius in an old tower. There is also attributedto Quintilian a dialogue De Causis, Corrupt® Eloquential ; but itis more commonly ascribed to Tacitus . The best editions ofQuintilian ’s works are those of Mr. Obreight, published at Stras-burg in two vols. 4io. in 1698, and of M. Capperonier, in folio.
QUIN I lUb, I* lamininus, Titus, or T. Quinctius Fla-minius, a celebrated Roman general, who was consul A. U. C.554, or B. C. 198. He acquired much military experience in thewar against Hannibal ; and was afterwards sent against Philip V.of Macedon, whom he totally defeated on the coniines of Epirus ,and made all Locris, Phoci's, and Thessaly, tributary to Rome .Yet he not only granted peace to Philip, but proclaimed allGreece free and independent at the Isthmian games. 1 his poli-tical step rendered him very popular among the Greeks, andpaved the way to the universal dominion of the Romans. Hewas afterwards sent to Prusias king of Bithynia ; who had givenrefuge to Hannibal , and by his address prevailed on the monarchto desert the greatest man of that age. Flaminius died sud-denly.
QUIRIEU, a town of France, in the department of the Isere ,on the Rhone , 12 miles E. of Bellev, and 24 E. of Lyons. Lon.4. 55. E. Lat. 45. 35. N.
QUlltlMBA, or QUERIBA, a cluster of islands, in the In-dian sea, near the coast of Zanguebar in Africa . They are fertilero oranges, grapes, dates, and other fruits and herbs: the pasturesabound with cattle, and the coasts with fish.
QUISITES, in Roman antiquity. In consequence of theagreement entered into by Romulus and Tatius king of the Sa-bines, Rome was to retain its name from Romulus; and the peo-ple were to be called Quirites, from Cures , the principal town ofthe Sabines, a name used in all public addresses to the Romanpeople.
QUIRK, in building, a piece of ground taken out of any regu-lar ground-plot, or iloor: thus, if the ground-plot were oblong orsquare, a piece taken out of a corner to make a court or yard, Ac.is called a quirk.
,, QUIRPON, an island in the North Atlantic Ocean ; near
in cr coast of Newfoundland . Lon. 52. 22. W, Lat. 51.40. N.
miles long from E. to W. It is fertile in wheat, maize, fruits, &c.Bays, and coarse woollens are its chief manufactures.
QUIS'QUALIS, in botany, a genus of the monogynia order,and decandria class of plants ; natural order, Veprecuiax Calyxfive-cleft, filiform; petals five; fruit a quinqueangular plum.There is only one species.
QU1-TAM, in law, is where an action is brought, or an infor-mation exhibited, against a person, on a penal statute at the suit ofthe king, and the party or informer, when the penalty for breachof the statute is directed to be divided between them ; in thatcase, the informer prosecutes as well for the king as for him-self.
QUIT-CLAIM, in law', signifies a release of any action thatone person has against another. . It signifies also a quilting a claimor title to lands, &c.
QUI TO, an extensive province of Peru , bounded on the N.by Popayan , and including a part of that government, also bySanta Fe de Bogota ; on the S. by those of I’iura and Chacha-poyas. The climate differs from all others in the same parallel,since even in the centre of the torrid zone, although under theequinoctial the heat is not only very tolerable, but even in someplaces the cold is painful; while others enjoy all the advantages ofa perpetual spring, the fields being constantly covered with ver-dure, and enamelled with flowers of the most lively colours. Themildness of the climate, free from the extremes of heat and cold,and the constant equality of the day and night, render this coun-try, which from its situation might be thought to be parched bytiie constant heat of the sun, and scarcely inhabitable, both plea-sant and fertile ; so that this country surpasses those of the tempe-rate zones, where the vicissitudes of winter and summer, and thechanges from heat to cold, are more sensibly felt.
Quito, the capital of the above province, seated between twochains of high mountains called Cordilleras de los Andes , on muchhigher ground than the rest of habitable Peru . Lon. 77. 15. W.Lat. 0. 13. S.
QU1TOOPOA, a town of the United States, in Georgia . Lou.89. 48. W. Lat. 33. 27. N.
QUIT-RENT, [quietus redditus, i. e. quiet rent,] is a certainsmall rent payable by the tenants of manors, in token of subjection,and by which the tenant goes quiet and free. In ancient recordsit is called white rent, because paid in silver-money, to distinguishit from rent-corn, &c.
QUIXOS, a district or jurisdiction of Peru, in Quito ; bound-ed on the N. by Popayan , E. by the Aquarico, S. and W. byQuito . The climate is hot and very moist; the surface is muchcovered with woods, and trees of vast magnitude ; cinnamon-treesalso abound ; with great quantities of fruits, roots, corn, &c. Theinhabitants are obliged to be constantly on their guard against thewild Indians.
QUIZAMA, an extensive and mountainous province of Africa ,in the S. of Angola ; abounding with honey and wax.
QUOAD HOC is a term used in the pleadings and argumentsof lawyers; being as much as to say, As to this thing the law is soand so.
QUOANG, a town of China , of the second rank, in the pro-vince of Koei-tcheou : 1000 miles S. S. W. of Pekin.
QUOJA, a country of Africa , 100 miles from the coast of theAtlantic. It reaches from Sierra Leone to the Grain Coast.
QUOIN, or COIN , on board a ship, a wedge fastened on thedeck, close to the breach of the carriage of a gun, to keep it firmup to the ship’s side. Cantic quoins are short three-legged quoinsput between casks to keep them steady.
Quoins, in architecture, denote the corners of brick or stone-walls. The word is particularly used lor the stones in the cornersof brick-buildings. When these stand out beyond the brick-work, their edges being chamfred off, they are called rusticquoins.
QUORUM is often mentioned in English statutes, and in com-missions of justices of the peace and others. It is thus called fromthe words of the commission, quorum A. B. unum esse vohimus:e. g. where a commission is directed to seven persons, or to anythree of them, whereof A, B, and C, 1), are to be two; in thisrase, they are said to be of the quorum, because the rest cannotproceed without them.: so a justice ot the peace and quorum is(> A one