| 释义 |
hundredfold, a., adv., and n.|ˈhʌndrədfəʊld|
Forms: see hundred; also 2–4 -fald, 3 -feald, 3–4 -feld(e, 4 -foold, -uald, 4–6 -folde.
[f. hundred + -fold. Cf. ON. hundrað-falda, MHG. hundertvalt, Ger. hundertfalt, -fältig. OE. had hundfeald.]
A. adj. A hundred times as much or as many.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 203 He shal fon þer-to-yenes hundredfeld mede. c1200Ormin 19903 He wollde..Hiss mede ȝeldenn hunndreddfald Forr hise gode dedess. 1552Huloet, Hundreth folde, centuplex.
B. adv. A hundred times (in amount).
a1200Moral Ode 54 He hit scal finden eft þer and hundred fald mare. Ibid. 247 Þer is fur þet is undret fald hattre þene bo ure.
b. Now always a (an) hundredfold.
c1320Cast. Love 1189 He that alle thyng may welde, Dowbled his peyne an hondred felde. 1340Ayenb. 191 Þet god wolde yelde an hondreduald al þet me yeaue. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxiv. 112 Mare acceptable..þan if he gafe him a hundreth falde so mykill. 1797Godwin Enquirer i. ix. 82 It diminishes them a hundred fold. 1840Macaulay Ess., Ranke (1854) II. 135 Armies which out⁓numbered them a hundredfold.
C. n.
1. A hundred times the amount or number.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 137 Eower weldede scal eft beon imeten eower mede, and bi hunderfalde mare. a1300Cursor M. 17055 (Cott.) But o ioi an hundret fald, he dublid þe þi sang. 1382Wyclif Gen. xxvi. 12 Isaac..sowide in that loond, and he fonde that ȝeer the hundryd foold. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xiii. 158 He shal haue an hundred⁓folde of heuene-ryche blisse. 1526Tindale Matt. xiii. 8 Some an hundred fold, some fifty fold, some thyrty folde. 1655Milton Sonn., Massacre Piedmont, That from these may grow A hundredfold, who..Early may fly the Babylonian woe. 1747Chesterfield Let. to Prior 6 May, Seed..which indeed produced one hundred fold.
2. A local name for Lady's Bedstraw, Galium verum, from its numerous crowded blossoms.
1853G. Johnston Nat. Hist. E. Bord. I. 100 As the flowers are exceedingly numerous and clustered, our common people call the plant A Hundred-fald. |