multiplyv.
/ˈmʌltᵻplʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈməltəˌplaɪ/ I. To increase or cause to increase in number, quantity, etc.† 5. transitive. To increase the intensity of. Occasionally: to magnify optically. Obsolete.† 6. intransitive. To be abundantly provided with. Also transitive (in passive). Obsolete.
1. † c. intransitive. Of money: to accrue as interest. Obsolete. rare.† d. to multiply evil upon evil: to add evil to evil, to accumulate instances of evil. Also with other objects, as to multiply charge upon charge, etc. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To cause to become of great(er) number or quantity; to increase or augment by accumulation or repetition.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (transitive)]
echeOE
ekec1200
multiplya1275
morea1300
increase13..
vaunce1303
enlargec1380
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amply?a1425
great?1440
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accresce1626
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majoratea1651
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examplify1677
pluralize1750
to drive up1817
to whoop up1856
to jack up1884
upbuild1890
steepen1909
up1934
the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > make numerous [verb (transitive)]
manifoldeOE
multiplya1275
the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (transitive)] > increase in amount, number, or frequency
manifoldeOE
multiplya1275
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propagate1591
vie1605
mass-produce1923
a1275 (?c1200) Prov. Alfred (Trin. Cambr.) (1955) 133 (MED) A stable mon..con..multeplien heure god.
c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) xxxix. 17 (MED) Þe wicked ben multiplied vp þe heres of myn heued.
c1390 G. Chaucer Melibeus 2930 Swete wordes multiplien and encressen freendes.
c1440 (?c1350) in G. G. Perry Relig. Pieces in Prose & Verse (1914) 32 (MED) If..þat lufe ware multipliede als mekill als mans herte moghte thynke ȝit it moghte na thynge atteyne to þe lufe þat Godde oure fadyre hase vntill vs.
c1490 in F. B. Bickley Little Red Bk. Bristol (1900) II. 128 (MED) Suche Straungiers and Allions beth gretely multeplied and encreased within the Towne.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xi.1 A haly man..sees the vanyte of the warld multiplid.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Bel & Dragon i. G Peace be multiplied with you.
1582 G. Whetstone Heptameron Ciuill Disc. sig. Fiij God will multiply his blessings vpon you, and make your aged Parents to dye in peace.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 7 Like a Cypher (Yet standing in rich place) I multiply With one we thanke you, many thousands moe, That goe before it.
1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick i. vii. 50 These Pulleys may be multiplyed according to sundry different situations.
1694 J. Addison tr. Virgil Fourth Georgic in Poems in Wks. (1726) I. 30 Till into seven it multiplies its stream.
1713 G. Berkeley Three Dialogues Hylas & Philonous ii. 82 For any Man to affect speaking improperly..can never serve to a better purpose, than to protract and multiply Disputes.
1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. lvii. 661 The activity of the emperor seemed to multiply his presence.
1833 Ld. Tennyson Poems 76 And all things that she [sc. my soul] saw, she multiplied, A manyfaced glass.
1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 155 Elongating the fibres and multiplying their number to an indefinite extent.
1878 W. S. Jevons Polit. Econ. 21 Public libraries, museums, picture galleries and like institutions all multiply utility.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 116/2 Each year has multiplied the produce of the preceding, and for thirty years it is this rice which has been served at my table.
1971 T. Alexander 2150 A.D. (1976) iv. 49 Your being a Virgo..only multiplies your 20th-century sex guilts.
1991 R. Howard tr. E. M. Cioran Anathemas & Admirations vii. 150 In the theater the playwright multiplies peripeties, not knowing how and where to stop.
b. intransitive. To become of great(er) number or quantity; to be increased or augmented by accumulation or repetition.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (intransitive)] > in amount, number, or frequency
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proliferate1915
the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > be numerous [verb (intransitive)] > be produced in abundance
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c1330 (?c1300) Speculum Guy (Auch.) (1898) 1009 Almesdede fordoþe þi synne..And þi god shal multiplie.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 278 Evelez on erþe..grewen And multyplyed monyfolde.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. 4376 (MED) Þer kyndled was..So hoot a sparke..of envye, Þat þoruȝ þe worlde þe fyr gan multiplie.
a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) 5195 (MED) By concorde, smale þinges multiplien.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 188 He saw the Sothroun multipliand mayr.
1538 MS Rec. Aberdeen To habound & multiply.
1588 T. Kyd tr. T. Tasso Housholders Philos. f. 25 Much more may riches multiply that consist in bare money, then that which consisteth in thinges measured and numbred from money.
1605 B. Jonson Sejanus ii Every day, The faction multiplies . View more context for this quotation
1666 A. Marvell Let. 23 Oct. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 42 Busynesse dos so multiply of late that I can scarce snatch time to write to you.
1734 J. Vanderlint Money answers All Things 85 The great Number of Brandy-shops and Ale-houses, which have multiplied so mightily of late Years.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xix. 127 Reduced to an humble station by the prudence of Constantine, they [sc. eunuchs] multiplied in the palaces of his degenerate sons.
1842 H. E. Manning Serm. i. 7 As sin has multiplied in its extent, so it would seem also to have become more intense.
1858 C. Kingsley Lett. (1878) I. 21 The flame increased—multiplied—at one point after another.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 421/1 The experiment stations multiplied until..in 1887, there were seventeen already in existence.
1981 M. Angelou Heart of Woman ii. 38 The pages seemed to be multiplying even as I was trying to reduce them.
1994 Times 10 June 2/5 All bureaucracies had a tendency to multiply unless checked.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (intransitive)] > accumulate or accrue (of money) > as or with interest
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c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 525 (MED) Money..sulde be lent in vsurie..and..þai sulde gyff for his sawle all þat multiplied þerof.
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a1475 ( S. Scrope tr. Dicts & Sayings Philosophers (Bodl. 943) (1999) 102 (MED) Multiplie not evil vpon euil.
1477 W. Caxton in Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (1877) lf. 74 v And he sawe a Iong mayde that lerned to wryte, of whom he sayde, that me multiplied euyl vpon euyll.
1606 Bp. J. Hall Medit. & Vowes III. §90 It is a damnable iniquitie in man, to multiplie one sinne vpon another.
1796 G. Colman Iron Chest iii. ii. 119 Heap circumstance upon me; multiply Charge upon charge.
1830 Ld. Tennyson Poet 33 Thus truth was multiplied on truth.
1865 J. Ruskin Sesame & Lilies ii. 138 I could multiply witness upon witness..if I had time.
1887 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 843/1 This life, it [sc. Buddhism] says, is but a chain of sorrows. To multiply days is only to multiply evil.
e. transitive. To adduce or cite a large number of (instances, examples, etc.).
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a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 106 (MED) It is no neede at this tyme to multiplye any mo ensaumples.
1716 J. Addison Freeholder No. 6. ¶3 'Tis unnecessary to multiply Instances of this Nature.
1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. xii. p. clxi It is needless to multiply examples any farther.
1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 32 In the spirit of the Baconian School, multiplying instances and cautiously making inductions.
a1832 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) II. 899/1 These explicit declarations against heresy might be multiplied to almost any extent.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. xxxii. 418 Instances of this kind might be multiplied.
1882 Cent. Mag. Mar. 715/1 Further instances of Mormon misrule might be multiplied indefinitely.
1941 G. B. Shaw How to become Musical Critic (1960) 319 I could multiply instances; but enough is enough.
1949 R. Wellek & E. A. Warren Theory of Lit. (1961) ix. 99 Examples could be multiplied indefinitely.
2. † b. intransitive with infinitive. To do something (denoted by the verb in the infinitive) abundantly or excessively. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To use or utter a multiplicity of (words, etc.). to multiply words: to be loquacious or verbose. Conversely, †to multiply silence (obsolete): to be silent. Now rare.
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the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > be talkative [verb (intransitive)]
to multiply words1340
gagglea1556
glib1596
to run on?c1663
gasha1774
to roll on1861
pan1871
rabbit and pork1949
motormouth1983
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > express copiously [verb (transitive)] > pour out or multiply (words, etc.)
multiply1340
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to boil forth1610
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 218 Huanne þe multepliest þine benes ich nelle none y-here.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Job xxxv. 16 Job..withoute kunnyng woordys multiplieþ [L. verba multiplicat].
a1475 ( S. Scrope tr. Dicts & Sayings Philosophers (Bodl. 943) (1999) 34 (MED) Multiplie scilence, for that is voidans of perilles.
1529 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. xiv. 258 No man..shall multiplye langage yn the Courte tyme.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 641/2 I moultiplye langage with one, as folkes do that chyde togyther.
?1530 Dialoges Creatures Moralysed xii. D ij This vale..brak owte and multyplyed greate wordis agayne the hyll.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 100 When they had thus multiplied talke vpon both sydes.
1611 Bible (King James) Job xxxv. 16 Therefore doeth Job open his mouth in vaine: he multiplieth words without knowledge. View more context for this quotation
1652 J. Chetwind in J. Harington Briefe View Ep. Ded. This Authour..hath avoyded the needlesse multiplying of words.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. vii. 132 They avoid nothing more than multiplying unnecessary Words, or using various Expressions.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. v. i. 328 The attornies and clerks have contrived to multiply words beyond all necessity. View more context for this quotation
1806 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. VI. 425 What he meant by the said premises was evident, and could not have been rendered clearer by saying, all the said premises, though it might have served to multiply words.
1886 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm.: Suppl. Nights I. 1a. 15 This is the reward..of whoso multiplieth words and molesteth his neighbors.
1900 Official Rec. Union & Confederate Navies War of Rebellion (U.S. Naval War Rec. Office) 3rd Ser. IV. 367 February term, 1819; 4 Wheaton's Rep., 316. Unwilling here to multiply words, I pray reference to the decision itself.
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a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Comm. on Canticles (Univ. Oxf. 64) in Psalter (1884) 500 Willis noght multiply to speke heghe thyngis.
1609 Bible (Douay) I. 1 Sam. ii. 3 Doe not multiplie to speake high thinges [L. nolite multiplicare loqui sublimia].
1649 E. Reynolds Israels Prayer (new ed.) v. 12 He multiplyeth to pardon.
1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. 9 He taketh delight to multiply to pardon offences.
3. † a. transitive. To cause (a family, population, etc.) to increase in numbers by reproduction or procreation (frequently in passive); to cause (the earth) to increase in population. Obsolete.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > multiply or reproduce [verb (transitive)]
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to make a baby1911
c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 56 (MED) Ine wlessche ioyneþ man and wyf, Children to multeplye.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 2647 Abram,..Multipli þi sede i sall.
c1400 ( Canticum Creatione 510 in C. Horstmann Sammlung Altengl. Legenden (1878) 130 (MED) Þeȝ..broȝten forþ mo [children], Þe worlde to multiply.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. i. 76 Whan Adam their fader maried them for to multiplye ye erthe of hys lignye.
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 97 The way & mean to suffyce multyply & encrese them [sc. the people] agayn to a convenyent nombur, ys only natural generatyon.
1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xlviii. 4 I wil make thee fruitfull, and multiplie thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people. View more context for this quotation
1680 W. Temple Ess. Advancem. Trade Ireland in Wks. (1731) I. 110 People are multiplied in a Country by the Temper of the Climate, favourable to Generation.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 413. ¶5 That all Creatures might be tempted to multiply their Kind.
1785 W. Cowper Task v. 221 When man was multiplied and spread abroad In tribes and clans.
b. intransitive. Of a population, species, organism, etc.: to increase in number as a result of reproduction or procreation (occasionally by artificial means); to reproduce. Of a cell: to give rise to two or more cells by fission, budding, etc.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > multiply or reproduce [verb (intransitive)]
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tidderOE
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c1390 (a1325) Ipotis (Vernon) 149 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 343/1 (MED) God..bad hem waxen and multiplye, Eueri beest on his partye.
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xix. 226 (MED) A man with-oute a make myghte nat wel of kynde Multeplie.
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 89 (MED) Godd said..Waxez and beese multiplied and fillez þe erthe.
a1500 ( Pilgrimage of Soul (Egerton) (1953) v. xxiii. f. 102 (MED) The aposteles..wer the fisches which..he put in the stewe of loved kirke, wher thei haue spawned and multiplied.
c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 1717 (MED) Isys was callyd the Goddesse Of Frute, for she fyrst made hit multyply By the meane of gryffyng.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xii. 23 He both increaseth the people, and destroyeth them: He maketh them to multiplie, and dryueth them awaye.
1577 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Three Bookes ii. f. 42v Hee caused it [sc. tobacco] to multiplie in Fraunce, more then any other.
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iv. 148 Then had they a little flea called Nigua, which got betweene the skinne and the flesh before they were aware, and there bred and multiplied.
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 53 The Priests then scatter the Ryce upon their heads, and pray, that they may multiply as Ryce.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 213 As for my Cats, they multiply'd.
1787 G. Winter New Syst. Husbandry 53 Observations instruct me that they [sc. ants] multiply and increase most in cold clayey soils.
1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. ii. 83 Under a climate more congenial..the descendants of a northern race may be able to aggregate and multiply.
1883 C. Darwin in Pall Mall Gaz. 7 Dec. 11/2 Multiply, vary; let the strongest live and the weakest die.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. iii. 39 Protozoa multiply by dividing into two or more units.
1953 R. W. Fairbrother Text-bk. Bacteriol. (ed. 7) viii. 86 The surfaces of the body..normally harbour a number of bacteria, which multiply without damage to the host.
1988 Kitchener–Waterloo (Ont.) Record 8 June a1/1 Canadians could go the way of the infamous dodo bird if more couples don't go forth and multiply, a leading population expert warns.
c. transitive. To breed (an animal); to propagate (a plant). Also (of a part of a plant): †to produce by propagation, to cause to grow (obsolete).
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the world > plants > by growth or development > grow, sprout, or bear fruit [verb (transitive)] > cause to sprout or grow
multiplya1550
germinate1610
shoot?1610
to put up1626
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > rear animals [verb (transitive)] > breed
breedc1400
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > propagate [verb (transitive)]
multiplya1550
to put down1865
a1550 ( G. Ripley Compend of Alchemy (Bodl. e Mus.) f. 62 (MED) The tree of hermes namid semelye to se, Of whiche one pepin A thowsand will multiplye.
1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 197 The Method of Multiplying Plants by Layers.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. iii. 163 The Trunk, which serves to multiply the Herb, and leads immediately from the Root to the Fructification.
1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 659 They could themselves drain marshes, clear waste lands, multiply flocks.
1833 Penny Cycl. I. 61/1 Most of them may be multiplied by cuttings struck in silver sand.
1857 E. Balfour Cycl. India 1184 This is a large Mango multiplied at Mergui.
1988 S. Afr. Panorama Apr. 20/2 The institute has managed to develop a technique whereby dates are multiplied through tissue culture.
4. Alchemy.† b. intransitive. Of metal: to undergo transmutation into gold or silver. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To produce (gold or silver) by the transmutation of base metal; to cause (gold or silver) to increase. Also intransitive: to produce gold or silver by alchemical means. Now historical.
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the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical processes > [verb (intransitive)] > transmutation
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the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical processes > [verb (transitive)] > transmutation
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a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. 2460 (MED) With gret diligence Thei founden..Alconomie, Wherof the Selver multeplie Thei made and ek the gold also.
c1395 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale 1401 A man may lightly lerne if he haue aught To multplie and brynge his good to naught.
a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 330 (MED) Thei rayle with periurye Sayng how thei can multiplye Gold and siluer.
a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 349 When such men promyse to multiplye, Thei compas to do som felonye.
1543 tr. Act 5 Hen. IV c. 4 It is ordeyned..that none from hensforth shall vse to multiplie golde or syluer, nor vse the craft of multiplication.
1592 J. Lyly Gallathea iii. iii. sig. E1v An arte quoth you, that one multiplieth so much all day, that he wanteth money to buy meate at night?
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1650 (1955) III. 24 An Impostor that had like to have impos'd upon us, a pretended seacret of Multiplying gold.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. ix. 244 Folk said, that the monks in thae days had the art of multiplying metals—at ony rate they were very rich.
1908 N.E.D. at Multiplication Alch. The art of ‘multiplying’.
1976 J. Fabricius Alchemy 154/1 This motif appears as the fertilizing impact of the solar sulphur, no longer ‘fermenting’, in the stone,..but fixing it by ‘multiplying’ in its earth.
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a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 356 (MED) Vppon nature thei falsly lye, For metallis do not multiplye.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (transitive)] > increase the intensity of
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to step up1920
to hot up1937
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > magnification or magnifying instruments > magnify [verb (transitive)]
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 297 Þe frogge multiplieþ his voice [L. multiplicat vocem] whanne he doþ his neþer iowe som del in þe water and striccheþ þe vpper Iowe.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. vii. sig. Mm2 His eyes saw no terror, nor eare heard any martiall sounde, but that they multiplied the hideousnesse of it to his mated minde.
1626 F. Bacon New Atlantis 41 in Sylua Syluarum Wee Multiply Smells, which may seeme strange.
1647 J. Cleveland Poems in Char. London-diurnall (Wing C4662) 40 Just as an Optique Glasse contracts the sight At one end, but when turn'd doth multip'y't [later edd. multiply't].
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the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply (something) [verb (transitive)] > provide or supply (a person or thing) with anything > abundantly > be abundantly provided with
multiplya1533
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a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1535) f. 11 Our senate faylleth of meke and wyse senatours, and multyplyeth with wise serpentines.
1588 T. Kyd tr. T. Tasso Housholders Philos. f. 16 That wealth whereby we should expect to haue our houses so dystinguished and multiplyed with offycers [It. che tu possa cosi distinti, e cosi moltiplicati hauer gli uffici della famiglia].
II. To calculate the product of.
7.
a. transitive. To find the product of (two or more quantities). Frequently with together.
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the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > perform arithmetic or algebraic operations [verb (transitive)] > multiply
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to multiply into1542
augment?a1560
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times1962
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 329 Sixe & twelue y-multiplyed [L multiplicata] makeþ two and seuenty.
c1450 Art Nombryng in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 40 The nombre to be multipliede resceyvethe a nominalle appellacioun, as twies 5.
1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) i. 4 The miles beinge multiplied together and reduced to Planametrie, the onlye meanes to knowe the contente of anye thinge.
1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus 15 The numbers to be multiplied must be set one under another.
1709 J. Ward Young Mathematician's Guide (1734) 439 Multiply the Two Diameters (viz. the Length and Breadth) together.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 29/1 Reciprocal, in mathematics, is applied to quantities which multiplied together produce unity.
1885 C. Leudesdorf tr. L. Cremona Elements Projective Geom. 283 If these equations be multiplied together.
1947 S. A. Stigant Mod. Electr. Engin. Math. iv. 60 It is permissible..first to multiply together either adjacent pair of matrices and then post-multiply or pre-multiply the result, as the case may be, by the remaining matrix.
1986 C. W. Norman Undergraduate Algebra v. 137 Adding and multiplying these equations..gives (x + y) − (x′ + y′) = [etc.].
1995 Economist 18 Feb. 103/3 Prime numbers—numbers that cannot be produced by multiplying two other numbers together.
b. transitive. To subject (a quantity) to the mathematical operation of multiplication by another quantity; to take (a quantity) a specified number of times and add them all together.
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the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > perform arithmetic or algebraic operations [verb (transitive)] > multiply
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augment?a1560
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a1400 G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (St. John's Cambr.) Suppl. §41a.3 Loke how moche space of feet ys be-twen þe & þe tour, & multiplie þat be 12.
?c1425 Crafte Nombrynge in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 21 Yf þou wel multiply a nombur be a-noþer nombur, þou schalt write a rewe of figures of what nomburs.
1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Aiiv 16. is a square nomber, bicause it is made of .4. multiplied by .4.
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises i. iv. f. 5v Whensoeuer you haue to multiply one number by another.
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. viii. 62 Multiply the Basall Area by 6.
1635 J. Babington Short Treat. Geom. 34 Let the line AB be given to be multiplyed by the line CD.
1673 J. Kersey Elem. Algebra I. ii. xi. 269 No number can be imagined, which being multiplied by it self according to any Rule of Multiplication, will produce −1.
1706 W. Jones Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos 20 Multiply each Figure of the Multiplicand, by each Figure of the Multiplier.
1766 Philos. Trans. 1765 (Royal Soc.) 55 68 Multiplying the above-found quantities by the square of the diameter.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 293 A force equal to 20 cwt. multiplied by 2304.
1859 J. Bright Speeches 4 The annual income of the estate multiplied by the number of years which..he may be expected to live.
1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. iii. 49 You have multiplied your investment by ten.
1925 H. C. Booth tr. F. Auerbach Mod. Magnetics (U.K. ed.) vi. 120 The ‘specific rotation’ is then obtained..and from this by multiplying by the molecular weight m the molecular rotation M.
1976 D. Storey Saville (1978) ii. viii. 95 What's two point five multiplied by seven?
1985 P. J. Curran Princ. Remote Sensing vi. 204 The filter multiplies the difference between the mean of the pixel array and the central pixel by an arbitrary number.
c. transitive. to multiply into: to multiply (one quantity) by (another).
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c1450 Art Nombryng in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 46 Nombre superficial is þat comethe of ledynge of oo nombre into a-nother.]
1542 R. Record Ground of Artes i. f. Lviii I multiply the first numbre 3 into ye second 40000, and it yeldeth 120000.
1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Eiiv 1225. And so moche doeth there arise by .35. multiplied into it self.
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. viii. 61 Multiply the perpendicular in the demibase.
1709 J. Ward Young Mathematician's Guide (1734) 340 Multiply the Base of the given Triangle into Half its perpendicular Height.
1812 J. Playfair Outl. Nat. Philos. I. 110 The weight multiplied into the height to which it is raised.
1972 M. Kline Math. Thought xxii. 532 Clairaut also showed that it may be possible to find an integrating factor, that is, a function μ(x, y, z) such that when multiplied into [equation number] (65), it makes the new left side an exact differential.
8. intransitive. To perform the operation of multiplication. Frequently with by.
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c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. vi. 329 Whan ȝe se..a Mayde haue þe maistrie and multiplie bi eight, þanne shal deth withdrawe.
c1475 Court of Sapience (Trin. Cambr.) (1927) 1966 (MED) Arsmetryk..tolde the craft of Computacion, To adde, dymynew, and to multiply.
1579 L. Digges & T. Digges Stratioticos 4 To multiplie, is to find of two Numbers a number product the one in the other augmented.
1652 News from Lowe Countreys 8 Podex can..Adde, Multiply, Subtract, Divide.
1799 W. Jones Adams's Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. (ed. 2) I. xi. 498 Multiply by 1728, the number of cubical inches in a cubical foot.
1840 D. Lardner Treat. Geom. 102 If we require the area, we have only to multiply by 3·14.
1915 Standardization Rules Amer. Inst. Electr. Engineers 48 The voltage at which a given gap sparks over is found by taking the voltage corresponding to the spacing..and multiplying by the correction factor.
1992 N.Y. Times 16 July a14/5 He does not believe in the cynical political arithmetic that says you can add by subtracting, or multiply by dividing.
9. transitive. Of a quantity: to operate on (another quantity) as a multiplier.
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?c1425 Crafte Nombrynge in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 21 Þis one nombur schalle be called numerus multiplicans,..for he schalle multiply þe hyer nounbur, as þus, one tyme 6.
1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. ix. f. 214v If a number multiplieng himselfe produce a cube number: then is that number also a cube number.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. at Multiplication Negatives multiplying Positives, must produce Negatives.
1859 G. Salmon Lessons Mod. Higher Algebra 70 The terms multiplying xy must be a3a0 and a2a1.
1947 S. A. Stigant Mod. Electr. Engin. Math. iv. 72 A matrix is post-multiplied by another when its rows multiply the columns of the multiplying matrix.
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multiplyadv.
/ˈmʌltᵻpli/, U.S. /ˈməltəp(ə)li/ In a multiple manner; in more than one way; more than once. Frequently hyphenated with a following adjective, esp. when forming a phrase used attributively. multiply connected adj. Mathematics (of a surface or topological space) connected but not simply connected. multiply-periodic adj. having many periods.
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1881 J. C. Maxwell Treat. Electr. & Magnetism (ed. 2) I. 120 If the region ς is doubly or multiply connected.
1892 Mind 1 353 The rules for the synthesis of multiply-quantified propositions follow immediately from those for the synthesis of singly-quantified propositions.
1893 A. R. Forsyth Theory Functions Complex Variable 315 A surface is simply connected, if it be resolved into two distinct pieces by every cross-cut; but if there be any cross-cut, which does not resolve it into distinct pieces, the surface is multiply connected.
1893 A. R. Forsyth Theory Functions Complex Variable 464 Functions which are multiply-periodic.
1912 Science 8 Nov. 623/2 Multiply-charged atoms.
1929 Mind 38 447 It is not immediately obvious how this formulation is to be extended to multiply-general propositions.
1932 C. I. Lewis & C. H. Langford Symbolic Logic ix. 301 A hierarchy..is involved in multiply-general propositions and functions.
1963 B. Fozard Instrumentation Nucl. Reactors ii. 12 In many cases only one electron is separated from the parent atom in an ionising process but cases occur where several electrons are emitted and the atom is said to be multiply ionised.
1979 D. R. Hofstadter Gödel, Escher, Bach (1980) viii. 218 Suppose a term..appears once, or multiply, in a theorem.
1996 Observatory 116 135 We attempt to determine numerically the lensing properties of different models, e.g. the frequency of multiply-imaged quasars.
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