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▪ I. decuple, a. and n.|ˈdɛkjuːp(ə)l|
[a. F. décuple (1484 in Hatzf.), ad. L. decuplus tenfold, f. dec-em ten + -plus, as in du-plus, tri-plus, etc.]
A. adj. Ten times as much; tenfold.
[1501Douglas Pal. Hon. i. xli, Duplat, triplat, diatesseriall, Sesqui altera, and decupla resortis.] 1613M. Ridley Magn. Bodies 87 Sometimes decuple or ten times as much againe. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 192 Man, whose length..is sextuple unto his breadth..and decuple unto his profundity. 1771Raper in Phil. Trans. LXI. 534 Reckoning..the value of gold decuple that of silver. 1817Colebrooke Algebra, etc. 4 Increasing regularly in decuple proportion. 1843Fraser's Mag. XXVII. 461 Double, treble, and more than decuple the amount.
B. n. A number or quantity ten times another; a tenfold amount.
c1425Craft Nombrynge (E.E.T.S.) 20, 20 is þe decuple of 2, 10 is þe decuple of 1. 1691Ray Creation i. (R.), If the same proportion holds..(that is, as I guess, near a decuple). 1864Pusey Lect. Daniel 623 During a period of years, which was to be a decuple of their own number. 1885Times 12 Dec. 9/5 To abolish one or two of the doubles, trebles, and decuples which afflict postmen and cabmen [in street nomenclature].
▪ II. decuple, v.|ˈdɛkjuːp(ə)l|
[ad. L. decuplāre (only in pa. pple. decuplātus), f. decuplus tenfold: see prec.: cf. F. décupler (18th c. in Hatzf.).]
trans. To increase or multiply tenfold.
1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 201 The Square of 1 decupled is 10. a1687Petty Pol. Arith. i. (1691) 9 If France hath scarce doubled its Wealth and Power, and that the other have decupled theirs. 1837Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) IV. 253 If the demand for muscle were decupled at every commercial and manufacturing station.
Hence ˈdecupled ppl. a.
1854H. H. Wilson tr. Rig-veda II. 5 To partake of the decupled (libation). |