† centuplyv.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. = centuple v.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > multiply by hundred or over [verb (transitive)] > multiply by a hundred
centuple1607
centuplyc1625
centuplicate1642
c1625 Partiall Law (1908) 36 Resume your anger centuply'de and I'le Ingage my honour..To give you all fayre satisfaction.
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Spanish Curat i. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. E2 v/1 Though my wants Were centupli'd upon my self, I could be patient.
1667 R. Flecknoe Damoiselles a la Mode iv. viii. 92 Were their Beauties and their Fortunes centuplied, we wou'd not marry them as they were before.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
centuplyadv.
/ˈsɛntjᵿpli/, /ˈsɛntʃᵿpli/, U.S. /sɛnˈt(j)upli/, /ˈsɛntəpli/ Now rare.
A hundred times; a hundredfold; to a hundred times the usual degree or extent.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [adverb] > hundredfold
hundredfolda1200
a (an) hundredfoldc1320
centuply1640
centesimally1703
1640 A. Stafford Honour & Vertue 50 Become my Vsurer, and thou shalt centuply receive the Summe thou disbursest.
1652 W. Berkeley Speech 4 I will not say how little, nor how Centuply repaid.
1839 Church of Eng. Q. Rev. Oct. 290 Should then the Protestants..introduce annotated Bibles, the discordance would be centuply increased.
1876 R. Browning Pacchiarotto & Other Poems 99 Like the gem Centuply-angled o'er a diadem.
1982 S. Bellow in Tanner Lect. Human Values III. 178 But a writer here is doubly, triply, centuply foreign.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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v.c1625
adv.1640