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multiplicable, a.|ˈmʌltɪplɪkəb(ə)l|
[ad. L. multiplicābil-is, f. multiplicāre to multiply.]
1. Capable of being multiplied; multipliable.
1471Ripley Comp. Alch. in Ashm. (1652) 111 Eche thing multiplicable is in hys kinde. 1596Bell Surv. Popery iii. viii. 336 They that pray are innumerable and multiplicable into infinit in potentia. 1654Jer. Taylor Real Pres. 221 How then can Christs body be supposed to be multiplicable? 1677Gale Crt. Gentiles iv. 250 If a singular is not multiplicable, then whatever agrees to any thing as singular admits not of multiplicabilitie. 1826Bentham in Westm. Rev. VI. 497 Of all multiplicable beings,—among those in whose instance the practice of that rule of arithmetic is most mischievous, are locusts. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. I. App. xvii. 393 As noble..as coins can be, or common cast bronzes, and such other multiplicable things.
†2. In active sense: Capable of multiplying (in the alchemical sense). Obs.
1471Ripley Comp. Alch. in Ashm. (1652) 188 Then hast thou a Medcyn of the thyrd order of hys owne kynde Multyplycable. |