QUINTUPLE. Five fold.
QUIRITES. In ancient Rome, the common citizens were so called, as distinguished from the soldiery.
To QUIT, to leave, to abandon. This word is variously used in military phraseology, viz.
| To Quit your post, | - | |
| To Quit your ranks, |
To retire, without having received any previous order for that purpose, from a station entrusted to your care. Any officer or soldier, who, during the heat of an engagement, shall quit his ranks, may be shot, or otherwise dispatched upon the spot. A sentry who quits his post before he is regularly relieved, is ordered to suffer death, or such other punishment as may be inflicted by a general court-martial.
Quit your arms. A word of command which was formerly given in infantry regiments, but is now laid aside.
QUITTANCE, Fr. receipt, acquittance.
Quittance de finance, Fr. A term formerly used among the French, to express any sum paid into the king’s treasury, for an appointment or place.
QUITTER, Fr. to quit.
Quitter l’epée, Fr. Figuratively to leave the profession of arms.