单词 | centuplicate |
释义 | centuplicaten.adj. Somewhat rare. A. n. 1. Each of a hundred things exactly alike or closely resembling one another. ΚΠ 1813 T. Jefferson Let. 24 June in Papers (2010) Retirement Ser. VI. 226 You have in your office Centuplicates at least of the last Census. 1880 N. Otago Times (N.Z.) 1 Nov. 2/8 Close by much that delights the eye we find these wretched centuplicates of bad originals. 1978 M. Daly Gyn/Ecology ii. 101 For those not satisfied with succession by duplicates or centuplicates, there is the fascinating possibility of returning oneself. 2. in centuplicate: in a hundred identical copies or transcripts. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [noun] > hundred > multiplication by a hundred > a hundred times as much hundredfoldc1175 in centuplicate1882 1882 Sat. Rev. 13 May 585/2 Ready for telegraphic transmission in centuplicate. 1917 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Morning Jrnl. 17 Oct. 3/6 We..do hereby make this our certificate in centuplicate. 2005 Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) (Nexis) 20 Feb. Complete the rebate form in centuplicate. B. adj. Hundredfold, centuple; consisting of a hundred. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [adjective] > hundred > hundredfold hundfoldc1000 hundredfoldc1175 hundredaghte1340 centuple1616 centesimala1682 centuplicate1835 1835 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 579/2 He received his richly-adorned ass-skin copy, with..a big patent centuplicate lock. 1946 Peabody Jrnl. Educ. 24 96 Too often such investigations are centuplicate in effect, each tending to rediscover prior discoveries. 1986 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 83 1369 (title of article) The genome of frog erythrocytes displays centuplicate replications. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). centuplicatev. transitive. To multiply by a hundred; to increase a hundredfold. Cf. centuple v., centuply v. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > multiply by hundred or over [verb (transitive)] > multiply by a hundred centuple1607 centuplyc1625 centuplicate1642 1642 J. Jackson tr. J. Drexel Nicetas in Bk. Conscience 116 Though this whole space of time were doubled, tribled, &c. yea centuplicated [L. centuplicatum]. 1654 A. Cokayne tr. G. F. Loredano Dianea ii. 135 Their kisses were centuplicated. 1761 J. M. Let. 15 Apr. in T. Hull Select Lett. Duchess of Somerset & Others (1778) I. 313 Many other of your Friends, desire me to return you their Compliments centuplicated. 1836 N. Greene tr. L. Sforzosi Compend. Hist. Italy v. 298 Punishments and executions centuplicate the odium. 1897 Jrnl. Amer. Public Health Assoc. Jan. 1 Its tendency is to unite individual efforts; to multiply efforts; to centuplicate efforts. 1928 Bull. Amer. Libr. Assoc. Sept. 310/2 The union of these workers and the communication of their means of work ought to centuplicate the yield of their labor. 1984 S. V. H. Smith Masks in Mod. Drama v. 130 Pirandello's protagonist..comes to understand himself as nothing more than an ‘everyman’ centuplicated by others. 2002 R. Mullerat in Independence of Lawyers 40 All Central and Eastern European countries have centuplicated the number of lawyers after the fall of communism. Derivatives cenˈtuplicated adj. ΚΠ 1768 E. Buys New & Compl. Dict. Terms Art I Centuplicated, made an Hundredfold. 1856 J. Cross Headlands of Faith iii. 45 Multiply the sum by millions, by centuplicated millions. 1903 J. C. Graham Probl. Fiorenzo Di Lorenzo iv. 35 Yon squarefaced, commercial-lipped Petrus de Castro Plebis of the quintuplicated masterpiece, and of the centuplicated pot-boiler. 2014 R. Leombruni & M. Mosca in G. Dekkers et al. New Pathways in Microsimulation viii. 125 (table) Note that the values reported in table are centuplicated values. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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