| 单词 | multiplying of |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmultiplying of 1. Becoming more numerous, causing something to become more numerous; breeding, proliferating. †multiplying of: tending to cause to multiply or increase (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] waxing1297 multiplyinga1400 augmentive1483 breeding1552 crescent1568 growingc1587 enhancinga1592 creasing1592 teeming1597 increasing1600 auctive1634 echinga1644 multiplicating1661 gliscent1669 enlarging1694 augmenting1745 swelling1854 the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [adjective] bearingOE genderinga1398 multiplyinga1400 fecundc1420 broodya1522 fruitful1526 breeding1552 procreant1588 procreative1598 increasing1600 broodious1602 prolifical1608 conceptiousa1616 plenteousa1616 conceptive1630 feracious1637 propagatory1647 prolific1650 proliferous1654 propagative1654 progenial1664 teemful1755 progenitive1769 breedy1824 proligerous1836 progenital1837 philoprogenitive1857 eugenesic1864 the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical processes > [adjective] > transmutation multiplying1611 the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > tending to increase something augmentativea1500 multiplicative1604 multiplying of1646 proliferative1952 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) 2348 (MED) More þen þe sterres of heuen Ne þen þe graueles in þe see, So multepliynge [v.r. vntelland] shulde þei be. 1611 Bible (King James) Wisd. iv. 3 The multiplying brood of the vngodly shall not thriue. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) v. iii. 103 Platus [sic] himselfe, That knowes the tinct and multiplying med'cine. View more context for this quotation 1646 H. Lawrence Of Communion & Warre with Angels 64 Such punishments..are multiplying of evill infinitely, if God prevent not. 1668 J. Child Brief Observ. Trade 14 Interest..which is of so prodigious a Multiplying nature, that it must of necessity make the Lenders monstrous rich. 1813 R. Owen New View of Society 20 The irresistible propensities which form a part of our nature, and which now produce the endless and ever multiplying evils with which humanity is afflicted. 1855 S. Wilberforce in R. G. Wilberforce Life S. Wilberforce (1881) II. vii. 287 Oh! our multiplying embarrassments from concessions and inconsistencies. 1871 A. C. Swinburne Eve of Revol. in Songs before Sunrise 63 Whose multiplying hands Wove the world's web with divers races fair And cast it waif-wise on the stream. 1940 C. Sherrington in B. Dixon From Creation to Chaos (1993) 222 This is what that little pin's-head bud of multiplying cells, the starting embryo, proceeds to do. 1991 Economist 21 Dec. 45/1 There are multiplying signs of what is fashionably called neo-prohibitionism. < as lemmas |
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