单词 | multiplicable |
释义 | multiplicableadj.ΘΚΠ the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical processes > [adjective] > transmutation > capable of multiplicablea1550 a1550 ( G. Ripley Compend of Alchemy (Bodl. e Mus.) f. 63v (MED) Then hast thow a medcyne of ye third ordor of his owne kind multiplicable. ?1557 W. Blomfild Blossoms in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652) 318 Materia Prima it is called Multiplicable... It is the Matter of which Metttalls were generate. 1714 Short Enq. Hermetick Art 25 By which green Lion another saith, All Philosophers understand Green Gold, multiplicable, spermatick, and not yet perfected by Nature. 2. Able to be multiplied; able to be replicated or increased in number, esp. by a large amount; = multipliable adj. Also Biology: capable of replicating. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > increased > able to be increasable1534 augmentablea1550 multiplicable1596 multipliable1606 magnifiable1646 1596 T. Bell Suruey Popery iii. viii. 336 They that pray are innumerable & multiplicable into infinit in potentia. 1654 Bp. J. Taylor Real Presence 221 How then can Christs body be supposed to be multiplicable? 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 250 If a singular is not multiplicable, then whatever agrees to any thing as singular admits not of multiplicabilitie. 1826 J. Bentham in Westm. Rev. 6 497 Of all multiplicable beings,—among those in whose instance the practice of that rule of arithmetic is most mischievous, are locusts. 1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. App. xvii. 393 As noble..as coins can be, or common cast bronzes, and such other multiplicable things. 1904 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 5 333 There is no second form λ′rs0 multiplicable by λrr0. 1984 Scientia Sinica B. 27 593 Bacteroids considered to be active nitrogen fixing forms which are not viable (not multiplicable). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1550 |
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