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  • QUACUNQUE VIA DATA
    Whichever way you take it.
  • QUADRAGESIMA
    Lat The fortieth. The flrst Sunday in Lent is so called because It is about the fortieth day before Easter. Cowell.
  • QUADRAGESIMALS
    Offerings formerly made, on Mid-Lent Sunday, to the mother church.
  • QUADRAGESMS
    The third volume of the year books of the reign of Edward III. So called because beginning with the fortieth year of that sovereign's reign. Crabb, Eng. Law, 327.
  • QUADRANS
    Lat. In Roman law. The fourth part; the quarter of any number, measure, or quantity. Hence an heir to the fourth part of the inheritance was called "hares ex quadrante" Also a Roman coin, being the fourth part of an as, equal in value to an English half-penny. In old More...
  • QUADRANT
    An angular measure of ninety degrees.
  • QUADRANTATA TERRAE
    In old English law. A measure of land, variously described as a quarter of an acre or the fourth part of a yard-land.
  • QUADRARIUM
    In old records. A stone-pit or quarry. Cowell.
  • QUADRIENNIUM
    Lat. In the civil law. The four-years course of study required to be pursued by law-students before they were qualified to study the Code or collection of Imperial constitutions. See Inst proem.
  • QUADRIENNIUM UTILE
    In Scotch law. The term of four years allowed to a minor, after his majority, In which he may by suit or action endeavor to annul any deed to his prejudice, granted during his minority. Bell.
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