Definition of "quintane" []

• Same as pentane. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Exodus is the second quintane: and so of the rest ..."
• "So the Gloss hath it; "A quintane; that is, a book of the law, in which there is only one quintane.""
• "And a little after; "They lay the Law upon the quintanes, and the quintanes upon the Prophets and Hagiographa; but not the Prophets and Hagiographa upon the quintanes, nor the quintanes upon the Law": that is, not any one single quintane upon all the quintanes made up into one volume."