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▪ I. twifold, twyfold, a. and adv. arch.|ˈtwaɪfəʊld|
Forms: 1 twyfeald, (twiefeald, -fald, twiᵹfeald, tweofeald), 1–3 twifeald, 3 twifald, -feld, 4–5 tweyfold(e, 5–6 twifolde, 3– twifold, 5– twyfold, 7, 9 twy-fold.
[OE. twifeald, twyfeald: = OFris. twifald, OHG. zwifalt (MHG. zwivalt), ON. tvífaldr (Norw. dial. tvifald): see twi- and -fold, and cf. twofold.]
A. adj.
1. Twofold, double.
c890tr. Bæda's Hist. i. x. [xiii.] (1890) 48 Betwih him twam we þus tweofealdne deað þrowiað, oððe sticode beoð oððe on sæ adruncene. c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xxxv. 238 Hu hefiᵹ ðæt twyfealde [v.r. twiefalde] ᵹeswinc bið. c1200Ormin 4997 Þatt fulle lufe..birrþ ben..Twifald..; Forr þe birrþ lufenn Godd & mann. c1220Bestiary 424 in O.E. Misc. 14 Twifold forbisne in ðis der..we muȝen finden her. 1583B. Melbancke Philotimus Q j, Her twifolde murther committed on her selfe and Telamon. 1623Lisle ælfric on O. & N. Test. Gen. B ij, Adam..begat of his wife a twifold race of children. 1812Cary Dante, Purg. xxxi. 122 Within those orbs the twyfold being shone. 1912Eng. Rev. Apr. 1 Queen of the Shadows, Maid and Wife, Twifold in essence, as in life.
†2. fig.
a. Double-dealing, deceitful, insincere: = double a. 5.
b. Double-minded, irresolute. Obs.
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xxxv. 244 Hwæt tacniað ðonne ða hean hwammas buton unclænu & twyfeald [v.r. twiefeald] mod? c1200Vices & Virt. 15 Bute he bie rihtwis and naht twifeald. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 187 Ðe twifealde man is unstedefast on alle his spechen, twifold oðer manifold is þe man þe nis stedefast.
B. adv.
1. In two parts or divisions; (folded) double.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Doblegar to double, to bend twifold.
2. In two ways or respects, doubly.
a1619Fletcher, etc. Q. Corinth iv. i, Your T beard..twifold doth express the enamour'd Courtier.
▪ II. twifold, v. rare. arch.
[f. twi- + fold v.1; cf. OE. twifildan to double.]
trans. To fold in two; to bend double.
1875Morris æneid xii. 927 Then falleth..Turnus with his hampered knee twifolded with the wound.
¶ trans. and intr. [perh. f. twifold a.] (Sense uncertain; rendering L. distinguĕre, itself app. a mistranslation, in two passages of the Vulgate.) Obs.
a1300E.E. Psalter lxv[i]. 14 Mi hotes..Whilk twi-falded mi lippes. Ibid. cv[i]. 33 For þai gremed gast of him swa, And he twi-falded [v.r. twifolded] in his lippes. |