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The Name is occafion'd by their Refemblance in Figure not only the ufual Dryneffes of the Soul, and the common
to a Swallow's Tail, which theFrencb call queue d'aronde. Privations of Grace, but infernal Pains : He believes him-
Ofthis kind are Angle and double Tenailles ; and fome felf damn'd ; and the Perfuafion that he is fo, continues
Horn- Works whofe Sides are not parallel. See Tenaille. upon him very ttrongly feveral Years : St. Francis de Sales,
On the contrary, when the Sides are lefs than the Gorge, fay the Qitietifts, was fo fully convinc'd thereof, that he
the Work is call'd Contre queue d'aronde. would not allow anybody to contradicl him thereir
QUEUE d'aronde, in Carpentry, a Method of Jointing. But the Man is, at length, fufficiently p„id for all this ; by
See DovK-'tail. the Embraces of God, and his own Deification.
Queue, in Heraldry, the Tail of a Beaft. See Tail. The Sentiments of the Quietifts, with regard to God, are
It a Lion have a forked Tail, he is blazon'd by double- wonderfully pure, and diiinterefted They love him
queued. ; for himfelf, on account of his own Perfections, indepen
QUIA, in Logic ; fee Reason. dently of any Rewards or Punifhments : The Soul ac
Quia Imfrovide, a Superfedeas granted in many Cafes quiefces in the Will of God, even at the time when he pre-
where a Writ is erroneouily fued out, or mif-awarded. See cipitates it into Hell; infomuch thst inflead of flopping
Writ, him on this occafion, S. Angcle de Foligny cry'd out, Haf.e,
Thus it is granted in behalf of a Clerk of the Chancery Lord, to caft me into Hell: Don't delay, if thou haft aian-
fued againft the Privilege of the Court, in the Common- don' 'd me, but finifi my Deftrutlion, and plunge me into the
Pleas, and purfued to the Exigent. Abyfs.
QUICK-Lime ; fee Lime. _ At length, the Soul, after long Travail, enters into Reft,
Quick Si her, a very ponderous fluid Mineral, properly into a perfeci Quietude Here 'tis wholly employ'd in
call'd Mercury. _ _ contemplating its God ; it ails no more, thinks no more,
For the Method of gaining Quickfilver, of preparing it, eye. defires no more; but lies perfecfly open, and at large, to
with its Properties, Ufes, c$c. fee Mercury. receive the Grace of God, who by means thereof drives it
QUID, What, in the Schools, is ufed fot the Definition Where it will, and as he will, of a thing. See Definition. In this State, it no longer needs Prayers, or Hymns, or
It is thus call'd by reafon the Definition anfwers to the Vows ; Prayers where the Spitit labours, and the Mouth
Queftion, Qitideft, What is it? See Question. opens, are the Lot of the Weak, and the Imperfea : The
Hence we have two kinds of Quids i Nominal, Quid no- Soul of the Saint is, as it were, laid in the Bofom, and be-
minis ; and Real, Quidrei. _ tween the Arms of its God, where, without makings any
Quid fro quo, in Law, a Latin Phrafe, importing as Motion, or exerting any Action, it waits, and receives the
much as the Greek avAhhAy^ei, among the Civilians; viz. a ' mutual Performance of both Parties to a Contract; or a
divine Graces-
It, then, becomes happy: quitting the
Exiltence it before had, it is now chang'd, it is tranf-
giving of one thing for another — As ten Pounds for a Horfe. form'd, and, as it were, funk and fwallow'd ud in the
Kitchin.
Quid fro quo, or Qvi fro quo, is alfo ufed in Phylic to exprefs a Miltake of an Apothecary, in adminiftring one Medicine for another 5 or in ufing an Ingredient in a Compo- fition different from that prefcribed. See Succedaneum.
In Propriety, the Quid fro quo is a Miftake in the Phyfi- cian'sBill, where quid is wrote for quo, one thing for ano-
Divine Being, infomuch as not to know or perceive irs being diftinguilh'd from God himfelf. Fenel. Max. des Saints.
QU1ETISTS, the Difciples of Mic. de Molinos ; or the Adherents to the Opinions deliver'd in the Article Qui- etism.
QUIETUS, q.d. freed, or acquitted ; a Term ufed by
ther ; or of the Apothecary in reading quid for quo, and the Clerk of the Pipe, and the Auditors in the Exchequer,
giving the Patient the wrong Medicine. See Prescription, in their Acquittances or Difcharges given to Accomptants ;
Hence the Term is in the general extended to all Mi- which ufually conclude with the Words Abinde recefit Quie-
ftakes committed in Medicine, either in the Prefcription, tus ; which is call'd a Quietus eft.
the Preparation, or Application of Remedies. A Quietus eft granted to a Shetiffdifcharges him of all
A Northern Phyfician in a printed Thefis on quid fro Accounts due to the King. See Sheriff.
quo's owns ingenuoufly, that they ate very frequent QUINARIUS, Qjjinary, in Antiquity, a little Ro-
.^le diftinguifhes very accurately a great Variety of Kinds of man Coin, equal to half the Denarius. See Coin.
quid fro quo's ; fome with regard to the Operation, others The Qttinarius was properly the Roman Half- Penny.
with regard to the Subject, and others with regard to their See Denarius.
Form, or their Effefls. The Medalifts indeed ufe the Term Quinarius in the ge-
The firft comprehends the quid fro quo's of the Phyfician, neral for a Medal of any Matter, not exceedin" the Size of
the fecond thofe of the Patient, the third thofe of the our Six-Pence ; but F. Chamillart, in an exprefs Differta-
Apothecary. i',.„., , r , 'ion, mews this to be an A bufe The Silver Coins, cur-
He adds quid fro quo s of the Chirurgeon, and of the
Cook ; quid fro quo's of the Nurfe, &c. Nor does he omit that there are falutary quid fro quo's, dangerous quid
fro quo's, indifferent, i$c. God preferve us from quid
fro quo.
QUIDDANY, or Quiddeny, of the Latin Cydonium, or Cydoniatum, a Conferve of Quinces. See Marme-
LADE.
rent under the Republic, he Ihews, were two : the one weighing a Drachm, and call'd "Denarius, as containing ten As's; the other weighing half a Drachm, and call'd Qui- narius, as containing five As's: which Coins continu'd on the fame footing under the Emperors. See A s.
Hence the Origin of the Word Quinarius ; and hence, in propriety, 'tis only the Silver Medal of the Weight of half a Drachm that the Name belongs to; the Romans hav"
QUIDDITY, Quidditas in the Schools, a Word of never given it to any other Species of the fame Size there
the ifame Signification with Effence. See Essence. w | m 'Tis only by way of Analogy, therefore, that the
The Name is derived hence, that it is by the Effence of Moderns apply it to Medals of Gold, or Copper of the
a thing that it is talc quid, fuch a quid, or very thing ; and f ame Size with the Silver Qttinarius ; 'thofe of Gold bein»
not another— When upon feeing, or hearing the Name fiVd at a Value much above, and thofe of Brafs much be-
of a thing whole Nature, iSC. we are unacquainted withal, i ow five As's.
wc ask Quid eft What is it ? we mean no more by the Inter- The only Relation between thefe Quinarii, is, that the '-old
gation but that we defire to have its Nature and Effence Quinary is the half of a gold Mecial as to Weight and Va-
plam d by a Definition Whence Quiddity is ufually i ue , and the brafs Quinary half a brafs Medal? as the fil-
nned the tltence known or exprefs d in a Definition. See ver Quinary is half a filver Medal.
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Definition
And hence what is effential to a thing is faid to be Quid- dative — As Quiddative Knowledge, (gc.
QUIESCENT, fomething at Reft ; fee Rest.
QUIETISM, the Sentiments of the Qitietifts, a Re- ligious Sefl which made a great noife towards the Clofe of the laft Century.
Molinos, zSpanijfj Pried, who died at Rome in the Prifon of the Inquifition, paffes for the Author of Qilietifm ; and yet the Jlluminati in Spain had taught fomething like it before. See Illumined.
The Name is taken from a fort of abfolute Reft, and Set of 'em
naftion, which the Soul is fuppos'd to be in, when arriv'd OUINCU
,t the State of Perfeaion, which in their Language is call'd fomething th
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Hence a Series of Qttinaries ftiould feem at lead as neceffary in the Cabinets of the Curious, as the Series of great Medals; they being all equally different Species of Money, which teach us how many kinds of Pieces there were of any Metal current in Commerce. See Series.
Add to this, fays our Author, that the Quinaries were of a finer and more finifti'd Coin than the other Medals, being wrought by the Hands of the Mailers ; which Teems owing to the Nicety requir'd in Engraving whole Figures in fo fmallCompafs. He adds, that tho' Quinaries are very fcarce, yet M. the Dukeofjltoe has almoft a compleat
UINCUNX, q. d- quinque uncite ; a Chequer, or ithing that has five Inches, Ounces, or Parts. The Term is chiefly ufed in Gardening for a Plantation thro the purgative way 5 that is, thro a Courfe of Obe- of Trees, dif, ofed originally in a Square, confiding of five dience, mfpird by the Fear of Hell : Hence he is to Trees, one at each Corner, and a fifth in the Midc
the unitive Life To arrive at this, a Man is firft to pafs
proceed into the illuminative way, e'er he arrives at Per- feaion j to go thro' cruel Combats, and violent Pains 5 i.e.
middle; which difpofition repeated again and again, forms a regular Grove, Wood, or Wildernefs, and when view'd by an
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