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multiplicate, a. and n. Now rare.|ˈmʌltɪplɪkət, mʌlˈtɪplɪkət|
[ad. L. multiplicāt-us, pa. pple. of multiplicāre to multiply.]
A. adj. † Multiplied, increased (obs.); manifold; of many parts, elements, or sections; multiplex.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 191 The chiefe cite of whom is Athenas, where study was somme tyme multiplicate. Ibid. III. 467 Lyke as the reason of the wittes of man is multiplicate [orig. multiplex], so he is mutable. 1656Hobbes Six Lessons Wks. 1845 VII. 301 The proportions of the ordinate lines beginning at the vertex were triplicate, or otherwise multiplicate of the proportions of the intercepted parts of the diameter. 1664Phil. Trans. I. 30 A Multiplicate Refraction of the rays of Light. 1713Derham Phys. Theol. 95 There is another thing considerable in this multiplicate Number of the Eye; and that is, that the Object seen is not multiplied. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) II. 450 Multiplicate scription, or transcription: penning many scripts of exactly the same tenor. 1822Good Study Med. IV. 233 Multiplicate Labour. Ibid. marg., Multiplicate fertility. 1863Dana in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. XXXVI. 333 The multiplicate Myriapods.
absol.1846Greener Sci. Gunnery 174 An arrangement of leverage partaking of the multiplicate.
b. Bot. = multiplex a. 3 a.
1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. xx. (1765) 53 Flowers are said to be Multiplicate, when by the Increase of the Corolla only a Part of the Stamina are excluded. 1816Keith Phys. Bot. I. 117 Sometimes the pistil..is multiplicate, that is when the flower produces more than one.
c. Math. (See quot.)
1868A. Sandeman Pelicotetics 201 The ratio compounded of ratios that are all the same as one another is called the Multiplicate Compound Ratio of any one of these ratios.
B. n.
a. in multiplicate: in many exactly corresponding copies or reproductions.
b. One of many exact copies (of a document, etc.).
1858A. Beresford-Hope in Cambr. Ess. 22 He offers it [sc. his report], copied in multiplicate, under the expressive name of flimsy. 1889Pall Mall G. 24 Sept. 1/3 It was his habit to write a synopsis or scenario of his novels... This was in later years, when it was necessary to send multiplicates to the various subscribers to his syndicates. |