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Quarterly   /kwˈɔrtərli/  /kˈɔrtərli/   Listen
Quarterly

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or consisting of a quarter.
noun
(pl. quarterlies)
1.
A periodical that is published every quarter (or four issues per year).
adverb
1.
In diagonally opposed quarters of an escutcheon.
2.
In three month intervals.  Synonym: every quarter.





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"Quarterly" Quotes from Famous Books



... must have been written by a person constantly mingling in the highest English society. The work abounds in interest, and, indeed, we should be at a loss to name another recent novel that shows anything like the same power of painting strong passion."—Quarterly Review. ...
— A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden - 2nd edition • W. A. Ross
... he went to several Commencements for me, and ate the dinners provided; he sat through three of our Quarterly Conventions for me,—always voting judiciously, by the simple rule mentioned above, of siding with the minority. And I, meanwhile, who had before been losing caste among my friends, as holding myself aloof from the associations of the ...
— The Man Without a Country and Other Tales • Edward E. Hale
... of a housekeeper. In this very outset of his bliss he must needs do as she bade him. He went, and made her ways as smooth as they could be made. Her rooms were assigned to her; her duties mapped out, the exact range of her authority. Her wages were fixed, to be paid quarterly. She would take nothing else from him—no jewellery (she wore nothing but simple things, which had been given her by her parents or sisters—amber, a string of cowries, an agate heart, a bangle ...
— Rest Harrow - A Comedy of Resolution • Maurice Hewlett
... up the argument against Darwinism in the "Quarterly Review," by declaring that "Darwin was guilty of an attempt to limit the power of God"; that his book "contradicts the Bible"; that "it dishonors Nature." And in a speech before the British Association for the Advancement ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists • Elbert Hubbard
... United States mail was given to it and immediately the line became a paying institution. The government expended, in quarterly payments, eight hundred thousand dollars a year for transporting the mails from the Missouri River to ...
— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman


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