quadriennium

American  

[kwod-ree-en-ee-uhm] / ˌkwɒd riˈɛn i əm /

noun

plural

quadrienniums, quadriennia

1. quadrennium.

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Example Sentences

Sunt enim loca e quibus si hoc anno sulphur effossum fuerit; intermissa fossione per quadriennium redeunt fossores & omnia sulphure, ut autea, rursus inveniunt plena.

From The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject. by Boyle, Robert

Such was the Arts' Faculty of the 15th century; a dreary, single-manned, Aristotelian quadriennium.

From Practical Essays by Bain, Alexander