Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for BI-QUIN'TILE
BI-QUAD-RAT'ICBI-RA'DI-ATE, or BI-RA'DI-A-TED
BI-QUIN'TILE, n. [L. bis, twice, and quintus, fifth.]
An aspect of the planets, when they are distant from each other, by twice the fifth part of a great circle, that is 144 degrees or twice 72 degrees.
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