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单词 hundredfold
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hundredfoldadj.adv.n.

Brit. /ˈhʌndrədfəʊld/, U.S. /ˈhəndrədˌfoʊld/
Forms: see hundred n. and adj.; also Middle English -fald, Middle English -feald, Middle English -feld(e, Middle English -foold, -uald, Middle English–1500s -folde.
Etymology: < hundred n. and adj. + -fold suffix. Compare Old Norse hundrað-falda, Middle High German hundertvalt, German hundertfalt, -fältig. Old English had hundfeald.
A. adj.
A hundred times as much or as many.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [adjective] > hundred > hundredfold
hundfoldc1000
hundredfoldc1175
hundredaghte1340
centuple1616
centesimala1682
centuplicate1835
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 19903 He wollde..Hiss mede ȝeldenn hunndreddfald Forr hise gode dedess.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 203 He shal fon þer-to-yenes hundredfeld mede.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Hundreth folde, centuplex.
B. adv.
a. A hundred times (in amount).
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [adverb] > hundredfold
hundredfolda1200
a (an) hundredfoldc1320
centuply1640
centesimally1703
a1200 Moral Ode 54 He hit scal finden eft þer and hundred fald mare.
a1200 Moral Ode 247 Þer is fur þet is undret fald hattre þene bo ure.
b. Now always a (an) hundredfold.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [adverb] > hundredfold
hundredfolda1200
a (an) hundredfoldc1320
centuply1640
centesimally1703
c1320 Cast. Love 1189 He that alle thyng may welde, Dowbled his peyne an hondred felde.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 191 Þet god wolde yelde an hondreduald al þet me yeaue.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxiv. 112 Mare acceptable..þan if he gafe him a hundreth falde so mykill.
1797 W. Godwin Enquirer i. ix. 82 It diminishes them a hundred fold.
1840 T. B. Macaulay Ranke's Hist. in Ess. (1854) II. 135 Armies which out~numbered them a hundredfold.
C. n.
1. A hundred times the amount or number.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [noun] > hundred > multiplication by a hundred > a hundred times as much
hundredfoldc1175
in centuplicate1882
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 137 Eower weldede scal eft beon imeten eower mede, and bi hunderfalde mare.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xxvi. 12 Isaac..sowide in that loond, and he fonde that ȝeer the hundryd foold.
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xiii. 158 He shal haue an hundred~folde of heuene-ryche blisse.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 17055 But o ioi an hundret fald, he dublid þe þi sang.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xiii. f. xvijv Some an hundred fold, some fifty fold, some thyrty folde.
1673 J. Milton Sonnets xv, in Poems (new ed.) 59 That from these may grow A hunder'd-fold, who..Early may fly the Babylonian wo.
1747 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 6 May (1932) (modernized text) III. 924 Seed..which..produced jobs one hundred fold.
2. A local name for Lady's Bedstraw, Galium verum, from its numerous crowded blossoms.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Rubiaceae or Galiaceae (bedstraw, etc.) > [noun]
wild madderc1450
crudwort15..
Our Lady bedstraw1527
Our Lady's bedstraw1543
galion1548
maidenhair1548
purple goose-grass1548
cheese renning1578
crosswort1578
golden mugget1578
petty mugget1578
lady's bedstraw1585
maid's hair1597
cheese rennet1599
runnet1678
field madder1684
mugweed1690
rondeletia1739
Richardia1755
petty madder1760
madderlen1770
galium1785
Sherardia1785
joint-grass1790
mugwort1796
bluet1818
bedstraw1820
madderwort1845
hundredfold1853
honeywort1863
1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 100 As the flowers are exceedingly numerous and clustered, our common people call the plant A Hundred-fald.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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