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ˈmultipliable, a. [f. multiply v. + -able. So in Fr.] Capable of being multiplied.
1625Bp. Hall Medit. iii. lxxviii. Wks. 62 Good deeds are very fruitfull; and not so much of their nature, as of Gods blessing, multipliable. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. 776 It is Indivisibly and Vnmultipliedly, and Illocally..present with that which is naturally Divisible and Multipliable, and in a Place. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Multipliable, or Multiplicable. 1865Ruskin Sesame i. §32 There is bread, sweet as honey,..in a good book; and the family must be poor indeed which, once in their lives, cannot, for such multipliable barley-loaves, pay their baker's bill. Hence ˈmultipliableness (Bailey vol. II, 1727). |