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单词 quadruplator
释义 quadruplator Obs.
[a. L. quadruplātor, (1) a public informer, (2) one who multiplies by four (see prec.). The exact origin of sense 1 is not certain, though there is probably some connexion with quadruplum a fourfold penalty.]
a. A public informer.
b. One who restores fourfold.
1624Sanderson Serm. I. 109 Our prouling informers, like those old sycophants in Athens, or the quadruplators in Rome.Ibid. 114 Zacheus..imposed upon himself..a four-fold restitution... Here was a right quadruplator indeed; and in the best sence.1647Trapp Comm. Matt. viii. 32 A cunning fetch of an old quadruplator.
So quadruplation, multiplying by four. Obs.
1557Recorde Whetst. N n iv b, That must be doen by that quadriplation as you taught before.1658in Phillips.
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