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septuple, a. and n.|ˈsɛptjuːp(ə)l| [ad. late L. septuplus, f. septem seven: see -ple.] A. adj. 1. Sevenfold.
1834Tait's Mag. I. 456 The ‘quadruple’ alliance will very soon be..a ‘septuple’ one. 1868Lockyer Guillemin's Heavens (ed. 3) 350, θ Orionis is a septuple star. 1882–3Schaff in Herzog's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. I. 49 The septuple fulness of the Holy Spirit. 2. Mus. Having seven beats in a bar.
1884Grove's Dict. Mus. IV. 120/1 There seems no reason why a Composer, visited by an inspiration in that direction, should not write an Air in Septuple Time, with seven beats in a bar. B. n. The seventh multiple.
1692Capt. Smith's Seaman's Gram. ii. xv. 123 The Cube of The Septuple thereof is 1·913. 1755Johnson, Septuple, seven times as much. A technical term. So ˈseptuple v. trans., to multiply by 7, increase 7 times; ˌseptupliˈcation, multiplication by 7; † septuply adv., sevenfold.
1615T. Adams Blacke Devill 2 He that is quit of so bad a Guest, shall *septuple his owne woes by his re-entertainment. 1633― Exp. 2 Peter ii. 4 That furnace whose heate was septupled. 1833Herschel Astron. viii. 278 Let any one figure to himself the condition of our globe, were the sun to be septupled.
1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 25 *Septuplication, or to multiply by 7.
1654Vilvain Theorem. Theol. viii. 299 The Churches restauration, whos glory shal *septuply exced the Suns splendor. |