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quadruplicity|kwɒdruːˈplɪsɪtɪ|
[ad. L. quadruplicitās, n. of quality f. quadruplex: see quadruplex and -ity.]
Fourfold nature; the condition of being fourfold, or of forming a set of four.
c1590Greene Fr. Bacon ix. 31 The quadruplicity Of elemental essence. 1593Norden Spec. Brit., M'sex i. 44 King Canutus the Dane,..in regard of his quadruplicitie of kingdomes, esteemed himselfe more then a man mortall. 1664Power Exp. Philos. 37 Dr. Brown..hath ranked this conceit of the eyes of a snail (and especially their quadruplicity) amongst the vulgar errors. 1825S. T. Coleridge Aids Reflect. App. C. (1858) I. 395 The universal quadruplicity, or four elemental forms of power. 1890J. H. Stirling Gifford Lect. iii. 41 The origin of the term [final causes] lies in the Aristotelian quadruplicity of causes as such. |