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▪ I. duple, a. (n.)|ˈdjuːp(ə)l|
[ad. L. duplus double, f. duo two + -plus, from root ple- to fill.]
A. adj. Double, twofold. Obs. in gen. sense: in Math. applied to the proportion of two quantities one of which is double of the other; in Music, to ‘time’ or rhythm having two beats in the bar.
1542–3Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII, c. 27 §47 If it..be with a duple voucher, then sixe shillinges and .viii. d. 1609Douland Ornith. Microl. 19 For example sake 6 and 12 will make a duple reason [= ratio]. 1656Stanley Hist. Philos. v. (1701) 162/2 By finding two mean proportionals between two right lines in a Duple proportion. 1664Butler Hud. ii. ii. 269 A breach of Oath is Duple And either way admits a Scruple. 1725–52Chambers Cycl. s.v. Time, Common or duple Time is of two species. The first, when every bar or measure is equal to a semi-breve... The second, where every bar is equal to a minim. a1763Byrom Robbery Camb. Coach (R.). Made the red-rugg'd collector's income duple. 1881W. S. Pratt in Gladden Par. Probl. 460 Duple and quadruple rhythms are the best.
†B. n. A double; = double n. 1. Obs.
1609Douland Ornith. Microl. 61 You shall find it a Duple. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 63 The proportion of a half part to a duple. 1726Leoni tr. Alberti's Archit. II. 88/2 Four..the Duple of two. 1787Sir J. Hawkins Johnson 535 Mathematical ratios of a duple and triple.
▪ II. † ˈduple, v. Obs.
[ad. L. duplāre to double, f. dupl-us duple.]
trans. To double; to make twice as much or many.
c1425Found. St. Bartholomew's (E.E.T.S.) 63 Rehersyng, and duplynge prayers. 1654Vilvain Epit. Ess. vi. lxxxii, That dupled force. 1694Holder Harmony (1731) 116 Dupling the Terms of the Ration. |