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QUARTILE

Volume 17 · 49 words · 1810 Edition

aspect of the planets when they are at the distance of 90° from each other, and it is denoted by the character □.

Quartering, in heraldry, is dividing a coat into four or more quarters, or quarterings, by parting, couping, &c., that is, by perpendicular and horizontal lines, &c.