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manifoldly, adv. Now only literary.|ˈmænɪfəʊldlɪ| [OE. maniᵹfealdlíce, f. maniᵹfeald manifold: see -ly2.] In manifold ways; † occas. in the proportion of many to one.
c825Vesp. Psalter lxii. 2 Multipliciter, moniᵹfaldlice. c950Lindisf. Gosp. John x. 10 Abundantius, moniᵹfal[d]⁓lice. c1450Mirour Saluacioun 3318 Mankynde..cryed to goode manyfaldly. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. 1 Tim. 10 The deuilles snares (which he layeth manyfoldely). 1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 177 The proportion..is manifoldly inferiour, not one to twenty. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. ii. §13 So also is there another kind of history manifoldly mixed, and that is history of cosmography. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 38 Good Culture doth infinitely meliorate the Land,..and manifoldly repay the expence and labour bestowed thereon. 1825Coleridge Aids Refl. 83 The manifoldly intelligent ant tribes. 1855Pusey Doctr. Real Presence Note A. 27 These are divided manifoldly, in that some understand by conversion identity of place..others..an order of succession. 1873A. W. Ward tr. Curtius' Hist. Greece I. i. i. 8 The country is so manifoldly broken up, that it becomes a succession of peninsulas. |