Meanings of quinquennial in English

In his quinquennial review of the progress of education in India, Mr. H.W.

Taking five quinquennial periods, the following figures show the average annual exports of coffee:-

The Federal Parliament is quinquennial, the local legislatures quadrennial.

A party of us left Calcutta on a shooting expedition during one of these quinquennial pilgrimages.

The same sort of operation would go on in quinquennial periods in respect of the Viceroy's Council.

The Athenians, after the purification, celebrated, for the first time, the quinquennial festival of the Delian games.

We shall go back twenty years and take the quinquennial totals as they are recorded in the judicial statistics:-

Recently held its quinquennial election.

China closed all the passes on the Nepaul frontier, and only allowed the quinquennial mission to enter by the Kirong Pass.

It happened that the king of the country was then holding the pañcha parishad; that is, in Chinese, the great quinquennial assembly.

The Archbishop of Cologne for reasons of his own made his submission, and asked for a renewal of his quinquennial faculties (1787).

On 6 November 360, I celebrated my fifth year as Caesar, my "quinquennial," as the Romans call it.

He obtained in 1864 the quinquennial prize of 50,000 franc reserved by the French government for the most ingenious application of electricity.

He also instituted a quinquennial musical and gymnastic contest involving horseracing,- a"sacred "festival ,asthey call all which include distribution of food,-andentitled it Actia.

The Quinquennial reunion of all the societies was about to be held, and the special feature of this festivity was always an oration.

~Great Quinquennial Assembly of Monks~