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† multiˈplicious, a. Obs.
[f. L. multiplici-, multiplex: see multiplex and -ous.]
Multiplex.
1617[see multifarious 1]. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xv. 141 That animall is not one, but multiplicious or many, which hath a duplicity or gemination of principall parts. 1660Stanley Hist. Philos. ix. §i. iv, From the symbolical use of numbers, proceeded a multiplicious variety of names. 1713Derham Phys. Theol. iv. iv. 138 Its Apparatus [sc. of the nose]..is not so multiplicious as of the Eye.
Hence † multiˈpliciously adv.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vii. ii. 343 The seed conveigheth with it not onely the extract and single Idea of every part, whereby it transmits their perfections or infirmities, but double and over againe; whereby sometimes it multipliciously delineates the same, as in Twins in mixed and numerous generations. |