The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quintan \Quin"tan\, a. [L. quintanus, fr. quintus fifth, quinque five. See Five.] Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever. -- n. (Med.) An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days.
Wiktionary
a. (context of a fever English) recurring after four days (i.e. every five days). n. A fever that recurs after four days (i.e. every five days).
Usage examples of "quintan".
To be able to observe the entry of both rockets into the atmosphere, sodium and technetium had been added to their hypergolic fuel: the first colored the exhaust flame a bright yellow, the second tagged it with a spectral line not found in the spectra of the local sun or the Quintan orbiters.
Was the hypothesis of conflict between Quintan builders a premise on which future decisions of the reconnaissance had to be based?
After less than a minute of this emission, DEUS announced that from the aposelenium three Quintan orbiters, unnoticed until now because they were so small, were approaching the probes.
The moment the Quintan rockets disappeared in it, the probes emerged from the burning cloud in a spiral and, instead of making for the ship, crashed into each other head-on and were thus atomized.
The level of Quintan technology bespoke the existence of a fully developed astronomy for many years.
Rotmont was willing to discuss the technical aspects of communication, but the first consideration was how to protect the ship from the swarms of Quintan satellites.
In the dictionary of our concepts there was no expression for the war-sphere of the Quintan type, for it was neither war nor peace but a permanent conflict that bound together the enemies and drained their resources.
Japanese, who was examining the spectra of the Quintan signaling flashes on the table viewer.
Putting up constant resistance, haggling out point after point, the Quintan side finally obtained conditions for the meeting.
The higher the level of abstraction, the more human and Quintan semantics diverged.
Or at least it was Gilday up until last year when she married Quintan Finn, a fine local lad.
I think Quintan admires that, coming from the steady background that he does.
Bresnahan was in the bedroom that Quintan and Ellen Finn had shared for the seven months of their short marriage, and she felt about as sad as she ever had in her life.
Bresnahan showed the girl first the photograph of Pascal Burke, then Quintan Finn, Manus and Donal Frakes, Benny Carson, and finally Tim Tallon.
Murdering Ellen and Quintan Finn was his idea from square one, and he carried out both murders.