a. and sb. [See QUINARY and -IAN.]

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  A.  adj. Pertaining to characterized by, a quinary division.

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1845.  Chambers, Vestiges Nat. Hist. Creation, Classif. Organisms, The quinarian part of the theory.

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1865.  Athenæum, No. 1953. 460/2. The circular quinarian system of nature.

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  B.  sb. One who advocates or adopts the quinary system in zoology.

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1851–6.  Woodward, Mollusca, 58. The Quinarians make out five molluscous classes by excluding the Tunicata.

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1885.  Newton, in Encycl. Brit., XVIII. 16/1. Whose common sense refused to accept … the mystical jargon of the Quinarians.

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