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† millecuple, a. Obs.
[irreg. f. L. mille thousand, after decuple.]
Thousand-fold. Hence † millecuˈplation, the action of increasing a thousand-fold.
1659H. More Immort. Soul iii. iv. 367 Every Object that is near would not onely seem double, but centuple, or millecuple. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. §37. 173 Nor any Triplication or indeed Milleclupation [sic] of them improve the same into Reason and Understanding. 1754J. Hildrop Misc. Wks. II. 47 If any of these [sc. People] should..be created your Lordship's Peers, they would be in the same millecuple Proportion greater, and wiser, and better than they were before. |