Quinisextum, Concilium CZvvoOoq irsvSeicTTi, as a complement of the fifth and sixth, so-called, oecumen- ical councils, A.D. 555 and 680), was held at Constan- tinople in 692, and intended to complete the disciplinary measures proposed, but not completed, at the previous councils. The meetings of this council were held in a hall in the imperial palace called Trullus, and hence it received, also, the name of the Trnllau < 'ouncil. It was composed chiefly of Oriental bishops, and its canons were publicly received in all the churches within the territories of the Greek emperors. Although the Ro- man legates subscribed to the acts of this council, it was never recognised by the Romish Church nor by its then ruling pope, Sergius I. This is due to the deci- sions of the council regarding the number of the apos- tolical canons, against enforced clerical celibacy, the rank of patriarchs, the fasting on Sabbath eves, the partaking of blood, etc. See Schaff. Ch. History; Mil- man. Hist, of Christianity ; Butler. Ch. History, i. 859; Piddle, Hist, of the Papacy; Mosheim, Eccles. Hist. vol. i ; Lea, Celibacy.
Quiim, William, a minister of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, was born June 20, 1790. He was con- verted in his sixteenth year, and about four years after began to preach. In 1817 he joined the Philadelphia Conference. His various fields of labor, as indicated in the Conference Minutes, were: Talbot Circuit. 1817; Caroline, 1818; Dauphin, 1819; Lewiston, 1820 ; Dor- chester, 1821-22 ; Accomac, 1823-24 ; and Annamessex, 1825. He then took a supernumerary relation until 1838, when, entering again the active work, he served the Church on Salisbury Circuit, 1839-40; Kent, 1841- 42; Milford, 1843-44; 'and Berlin, 1845. Declining health then obliged him to lake rest, and he settled at Newtown. Pa., where he died Dec. 13, 1867. He was a well-cultured man and did honor to his Church and gen- eration as a student and a Christian. See Minutes of A nnual Conferences, 1868.
Qninquagesima is the name by which the Sun- day before Lent (q. v.) is designated. The first Sun- day in Lent being called Quadragesima, this being further from Easter was called Qninquagesima (or
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fiftieth Sun. lay |, reckoning the distance from Easti r in round numbers. Ii was sometimes called Quinquagesi- 'entia, in order to distinguish it from the <<i tur Quinquagesima, "r interval between Easter and Whit- suntide, called Quinquagesima paschalis,ot latitiat. It is also called > ve-Sunday (q.v.). In ordinary years Quinquagesima is the forty-ninth day before Easter; in leap-year it is the fiftieth.
Quinquarboreus, Joannes (or JeanCinqarbre), : Frenchman, was a native of Aurillac, in Au- vergne. In 1554 he was made regius professor of the Hebrew language at Paris; in 1575 lie was made dean of the faculty, and occupied this position until t lie year 1">*7. when he died. He wrote, ItutituHo Lingua Ehraic<c,cum \uli.<. etc. (Paris, If. Hi) : />, R. Cnuumn- i(i,i Hebraica Opus (ibid. 1549, 1556, 1582; Accessit </- iam I. Hi< r de iVotis, i. e. Abbri viaturis Hebrceorum [Ven- ice, 1588, and Paris, ltjtiit. cum Notts I'. I 'ignolii | ) : — Notm in Clenardi Grammatica Hebraica (Paris, 1549, 1564). He also translated into Latin the Chaldee of Jonathan on Host a, Jot I. .1 mos (ibid. 1556 and 1563 I. Sec F first. Bibliotheca Judaica, ii, 106; iii, 124; Steinschneider, Bibliographisches Handbuch, p. 113; Wolf. Bibliotheca lh hr. iv. 250,298; Jocher, Allgetn. GeleArten- Lexikon, s. v. (B.P.)
Quinquarticular Controversy is a dispute which arose at Cambridge in 1594 between the Armin- ians and Calvinists respecting the following five points: predestination, free will, effectual grace, perseverance, and the extent of redemption, in 1626 two fruitless conferences were held on these same points; and in 1G30 bishop Davenant preached at court on these dis- puted matters, and thereby gave greal offence to Charles I. The next year the controversy was revived at Ox- ford, and in Ireland, of which archbishop Usher was then primate. The king issued certain injunctions concern- ing the bounds within which these points might be dis- cussed; but these limits having been exceeded by Thom- as Cooke, a fellow of Brazenose College, Oxford, in a Latin sermon preached before the university in 1034, he was compelled to make a public recantation.— Farrar, Eccles. Diet. s. v. See Collier. Eccles. Hist.; Mosheim, Eccles. Hist. voL ILL See, also, Dort, Synod of ; Five
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Quinquatria.an ancient Roman festival celebrat- ed in honor of .Minerva on .March 1!». Some writers allege thai its observance was limited to one day; oth- ers, however, say that it lasted for live days. This last
is the opini f Ovid, who considers ii to have been a
festival held in commemoration of the birthday of Mi- nerva; and hence ii was customary for women on that day to consult diviners and fortune-tellers.— Gardner, Faiths ofth World,a.v.
Quinquennalia, games celebrated among the an- cient Romans in imitation of the Creek festivals at the end of every four years. On these occasions keen com- pel itions were carried on in music, gymnastics, and borse-racing. Quinquennalia were observed in honor of Julius ( laesar, and also of Augustus; but they seem to
have been celebrated with peculiar splendor under Nero.
from whose time i hey were discontinued, until at length they were revived by Domitian in honor of Jupiter Ca- pitolinus. Gardner, Faiths ofth* World,s. v.