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triplication|trɪplɪˈkeɪʃən|
[a. F. triplication (Godef.), or ad. L. triplicātiōn-em, n. of action from triplicāre to triplicate.]
1. The action or process of making threefold, or multiplying by three; also, the result of this.
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God xix. ii. (1620) 708 These twelue sects are produced by the triplication of these foure. 1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 24 Triplication..is to add the given number to the double of the same. 1798W. Palgrave Let. in Parr's Wks. (1828) VIII. 103 The triplication of the assessed taxes. 1893Nation (N.Y.) 23 Mar. 213/3 A duplication or triplication of teachers of theology entered into my ideal of the school.
2. a. Civil and Canon Law. The plaintiff's reply to the defendant's duplication, corresponding to the surrejoinder at common law. b. In Common Law sometimes applied (after Britton) to the rejoinder.
[1292Britton iii. xiv. §6 Et si le pleyntif die, qe il fust seisi par acun feffement, a ceo soit respoundu par triplicacioun, cum desus est dit.] a1577Sir T. Smith Commw. Eng. (1609) 67 Where the law is not doubtful, according to the matter conteyned in the declaration, answer, replication, rejoynder, or triplication, the Judge out of hand decideth it. 1651G. W. tr. Cowel's Inst. 243 Our Lawyers call a Duplication, as well in the Chancery, as in other Courts a Rejoinder, and a Triplication a Sur-rejoinder. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 251 There are also Triplications, which the Plaintiff objects to the Defendant's Duplication. 1865Nichols Britton II. 116 Nevertheless in some cases the plaintiff may have a valid replication..But the tenant may answer by way of triplication, that [etc.]. 1880Muirhead Gaius iv. §128 If this..for any reason be really inequitable to the pursuer, still another clause is necessary on the other side for his relief, which is called a triplication. 1895Pollock & Maitland Hist. Eng. Law II. ix. §4. 613 The exception may be met by a replication, the replication by a triplication and so on ad infinitum.
transf.1593G. Harvey Pierces Super. Wks. (Grosart) II. 112 For any my briefe Triplication, he will prouide a Quadruplication at large. 1621[see duplication 3 b]. 1649Roberts Clavis Bibl. 344 Eliphas his Triplication, or third Opposition against Job. |