QUO 



Tlie term is formed from the Latin quodlibel, any thing, 

 what you pkafe : and fo well fatisfied were the public of the 

 impertinences of thefe quellions, that the term quodlibel lias 

 been fince retained, to fignify any little ridiculous quibble. 



QUOJA, in Geography, a country of Africa, fituated 

 above 100 miles from the coaft of the Atlantic, between the 

 •Stli and loth degrees of W. longitude, and between the 

 7tli and 9th degrees of N. latitude. 



QUO IF, in Ship-Building, a piece of oak thickftuff on 

 the deck-hook, to which the deck water-way on each fide 

 is butted, otherwife the butt would come in the middle, and 

 could not be caulked. 



QUOIL, QuovL, or Coile, in the Sea Language. A 

 cable is faid to, be quoiled, when it is laid round in a ring, one 

 turn over another, on the deck of a fhip. 



The middle of fuch ring, or quoil, is a good place to lay 

 (hot in : they are more fafe there, than in lockers along the 

 fide, where the enemy's fnot may fall into them. 



Quoil, Weather. See Wkatiikr Quo/'/. 



QUOIN, or Coin, formed from the French ro/n, of the 

 Latin cuneus, wedge, aboard a fhip, is a wedge faftened on 

 the deck, clofe to the breech of the carriage of a gun, to 

 keep it firm up to the fhip's fide, and prevent its rolling ; 

 and alfo to raife or deprefs it. 



Quoins, Canlic, are fhort three-legged quoins, put be- 

 tween cades to keep them fteady. See Coin. 



Quoins, in /Irehileilure, denote the corners of brick or 

 Hone walls. 



The word is particularly ufed for the ftones in the corners 

 of brick buildings. When thefe ftand out beyond the 

 brick-work (their edges being chamferred off) they are 

 called rujlie quoins. 



Ql'OIN, in Geography, a finall ifland in the Indian fca, 

 near the W. coaft of Madagafcar. S. lat. 14°. E. long. 

 48^ 14'.' — AHo, an ifland in the Eaft Indian fea, N. of the 

 Nicobar iflands. N. lat. 9° 56'. E. long. 93° 20'. 



QUOITS, a kind of exercife or game, known among the 

 ancients under the name of the difcus. See Disc. 



QUOLL, in Zoology, a name given by the natives of 

 New Holland to an animal refembling a pole-cat, with a 

 bro«'n back, fpotted with white, and the belly of a pure 

 ■white, in which it differs from others of thefe fetid animals. 

 Cook's Voy. 1770. vol. iii. p. 626. 



QUONDANGA, in Geography, a town of the Birman 

 empire ; 32 miles N. of Prone. 



QUORUM, a term frequently mentioned in our ftatutes, 



and often ufed in commifTions, both of peace, and others. 



A juftice of the quorum is thus called from the words in 



the commiflion, Quorum C. D. or A. B. aliquem •veflrum uniim 



^s/fe itolumns. 



For an example : where a commiflion is direfted to feven 

 perfons, or to any three of them, of which A. B. and 

 C. D. are to be two ; there A. B. and C. D. are faid to 

 be of the quorum, becaufe the reft cannot proceed without 

 them. 



So a juftice of the peace and quorum is one without whom 

 the reft of thejuftices, in feme cafes, cannot proceed. See 

 Justices of the Peace. 



Quorum Nomina. In the reign of king Henry VI. the 

 king's colleftors, and other accomptants, were much per- 

 plexed in pafling their accounts, by new extorted fees, and 

 forced to procure a then late-invented writ of quorum nomina, 

 for the allowance and fuing out their quietus, without the 

 allowance of the king. 



QUOTA, in Law, a t.ix to be levied in an equal 

 manner. 



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QUO 



QUOTATION, in Literature jz. citation ; or apaflage 

 rehearfed exprefsly in one author from another. 



Quotations are ufually dittitiguiflied by inverted commas. 



The manner of quoting by book, and chapter, or fcftion, 

 if chiefly affefted by men of erudition ; but it is abufed : 

 this method ought only to obtain where the whole chapter or 

 feftion is exprefsly on the fubjeft. On other occafions, 

 quoting by page is more commodious ; except in clafiics, and 

 other ancient writings, of which there are many editions in 

 different forms ; where this method is of little ufe, unlefs 

 the edition be alfo fpecified. 



The quotations from the Old Teftament, found in the 

 New, have occafioned great doubt, difpute, and criticifm. 

 The apoftlcs are frequently referring to the Old Teftament, 

 and quoting paffages and prophecies thence, as fulfilled in 

 our Saviour ; yet thefe pafl'ages, thus quoted, are frequently 

 either not found in the Old Teftament at all, or they are 

 not urged in the New, according to the literal and obvious 

 fenfe they feem to bear in the Old. 



A late ingenious author, in an " Eflay upon the Truth of 

 the Chriftian Religion," frankly owns, that the cvangelifts 

 fometimes apply to the Mefiiah paflagcs of the Old Tefta- 

 ment, which, as they lie in our prefent copies, plainly re- 

 Inte to fome other perfon, or thing. This is evident, e.gr. 

 in the paffage, Matthew, ii. 15. Out of Egypt have I called 

 myfon ; which is quoted from Hofea, xi. where it is plainly 

 underftood of the coming of the Ifraelites out of Egypt. 



This circumftance has been urged as a great objeftion to 

 Chriftianity, which the divines, commentators, critics, &c. 

 have long laboured to remove, though by very different 

 means. 



Some have recourfe to a double completion ; and imagine, 

 that though the prophecies were primarily accomplifhed in 

 other events, yet they might have a fecondary accompliftt- 

 ment in the Melftah : but others fet afide a double comple- 

 tion, except where the prophet himfelf declares as much, 

 this otherwife making all prophecy ufelefs. See Pro- 

 phecy. 



The generality choofe, therefore, to have recourfe to an 

 allegorical, typical, or fpiritual meaning in the prophecies, 

 &c. and fuppofe them to have been thus underftood among 

 the ancient Jews, thus fulfilled in our Saviour, and thus ap- 

 phed by the apoftles. 



In' effeft, the Jewifli rabbins, it is allowed, took great 

 liberty in quoting and interpreting fcripture ; and it is 

 fuppofed the apoftles might follow thefe rules in their 

 quotations. 



Accordingly, M. Surenhufius, Hebrew profefFor at Am- 

 fterdam, has endeavoured to retrieve thefe rules, long fince 

 loft, in an exprefs treatife on this fubjeft, publiflied in 1713. 

 This author obferves a great deal of difference applied in 

 the different forms of quoting ufed by the facred writers : as, 

 // has been faid; it is written ; that it might be fulfilled ivhicb 

 •was fpoken by the prophets ; the Scripture fays ; fee what is 

 faid J the Scripture forefeeing ; it is not written, &c. He adds 

 that the books of the Old Teftament having been difpofed 

 in a different order at different times, and having had dif- 

 ferent names, it is thence, that one book or writer is fome- 

 times confounded with another. 



For the rules of quoting and interpreting praftifed among 

 the rabbins, he gives us ten ; recovered with much ftudy 

 from the Talmud, and the ancient Jewifli doftors : in- 

 ftances of which he gives us in the writings of the apof- 

 tles ; and by thofe rules he endeavours to explain and 

 juftify all the quotations made from the Old Teftament in 

 the New. 



The rules are, i. Reading the words not according to 

 Qq the 



