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quatern - the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one

IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, 4, four, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad, foursome, quaternary

digit, figure - one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration; "0 and 1 are digits"

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This is documented by a remark in an earlier music book, the Geystliche Gsangbuchlin produced by Peter Schoffer the Younger (vdm 111), which states: "Item / sei gemanet der buchbinder/ inn ydem Quatern die signatur iij und iiij.

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The goal in this chapter is to appreciate the middle way so dear to the classics and the ideal of the "honnete homme." The fourth and final reading centers on the questions of "fortune" and examines this topic with Greimas' structuralist approach of the quatern (doing and being) and Gosselin's modal approach, reinterpreting the fatalistic conjecture of the Maximes.

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Late- and postglacial climatic change in the northern Midwest, USA: quantitative estimates derived from fossil pollen spectra by multivariate statistical analysis: Quatern Res 2: 70-115.