different between imbricated vs quincuncial

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Participle adjective, imbricate +? -ed.

imbricated (comparative more imbricated, superlative most imbricated)

Overlapping, like scales or roof-tiles; intertwined.
- 1965, John Fowles, The Magus:
  He stopped speaking for a moment, like a man walking who comes to a brink; perhaps it was an artful pause, but it made the stars, the night, seem to wait, as if story, narration, history, lay imbricated in the nature of things; and the cosmos was for the story, not the story for the cosmos.
- 1996, Russell Hoban, Fremder, Bloomsbury 2003, p. 50:
  the spaceport filled up with emptiness and that imbricated silence made up of the low roar of the air-cycling system, the hum of the robot sweepers, the sizzle of the noctolux lamps, and the sound of distant footsteps.

From Latin quincuncialis.

quincuncial (comparative more quincuncial, superlative most quincuncial)

Arranged in a quincunx.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society 2007, p. 169:
  Of this Quincunciall Ordination the Ancients practised much, discoursed little [...].
- 1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1297:
  In architecture the quincunxial shape was considered a sort of housing for the divine power – a battery, if you like, which gathered into itself the divinity as it tried to pour earthward, to earth itself – just like an electrical current does.
(botany) Having the leaves of a pentamerous calyx or corolla so imbricated that two are exterior, two are interior, and the other has one edge exterior and one interior.
quincuncial aestivation

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