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sixfold, a.|ˈsɪksfəʊld|
Also 1 sixfeald, 5 sex(e)fold, 6–7 sixefolde, 7 -fold, sixfould.
[f. six a. + -fold. Cf. ON. sexfaldr, MSw. siäxfald, Da. sexfold, MHG. sehsvalt.]
Consisting of six together; comprising six things, kinds, etc.; also, six times as great or as numerous; sextuple.
a1000in Wr.-Wülcker 230 Exagonum, sixfeald. Exametro heroico, sixfealdum leoþcræfte. 1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 10 This sexefold propyrte Of the margaryte. 1497Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 91 Sex fold takle with a robenett. 1552in Huloet. 1557Recorde Whetst. B ij, Sextupla. 6 to 1 : 12 to 2..Sixefolde. 1609[J. Melton] (title), A Sixe-folde Politician; together with a Sixe-folde Precept of Policy. 1641‘Smectymnuus’ Vind. Answ. xiv. 182 Wee shewed a sixfold difference. 1733E. Erskine Serm. Wks. 1871 II. 206, I have given you a sixfold View of that Christian fortitude. 1776Pennant Brit. Zool. III. 94 The mouth of this fish is furnished with (sometimes) a sixfold row of teeth. 1823H. J. Brooke Introd. Crystallogr. 59 The primary planes of those forms which possess fourfold or sixfold cleavages. 1882Farrar Early Chr. II. 29 The sixfold woe of Isaiah (Is. v. 1–30) on greed, and luxury, and unbelief, and pride, and injustice, and the reversal of moral truths. |