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Quadʹriloge (3 syl.)

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Anything written in four parts or books, as Childe Harold. Anything compiled from four authors, as the Life of Thomas à Becket. Any history resting on the testimony of four independent authorities, as The Gospel History.

“The very authors of the Quadriloge itselfe or song of foure parts … doe all with one pen and mouth acknowledge the same.”—Lambarde: Perambulation, p. 55.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Q.V. (Latin, quantum vis)
Quack or Quack Doctor;
Quacks
Quad
Quadra
Quadragesima Sunday
Quadragesimals
Quadrilateral
Quadrille
Quadriloge
Quadrivium
Quadroon
Quadruple Alliance of 1674
Quæstio Vexata
Quail
Quaint
Quaker
Qualm
Quandary
Quanquam or Cancan