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quadruplication|kwəˌdruːplɪˈkeɪʃən|
[ad. L. quadruplicātiōn-em, n. of action from quadruplicāre to make fourfold: see prec.]
1. The action or process of making fourfold, of multiplying by four; also, the result of this; a thing folded four times.
1578Banister Hist. Man v. 78 It [the vein] is admitted into the quadruplication of Dura mater. 1611Cotgr., Quadruplication, a quadruplication. 1616in Bullokar Eng. Expos. [Hence in Cockeram, Blount, etc.] 1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 24 Quadruplication..is to double the Duplication. 1839Alison Europe (1849–50) VII. xli. §15. 19 Twenty-eight years; the well-known period of the quadruplication of the Sum at compound interest of five per cent.
2. Civil and Canon Law. A pleading on the part of the defendant, corresponding to the rebutter at common law. Cf. quadruply n.
1651W. G. tr. Cowel's Inst. 243 After a Triplication [follows] a Quadruplication. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 251 Quad[r]uplications, which the Defendant propounds to the Plaintiffs Triplications. |