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▪ I. octuple, a. (n.)|ˈɒktjuːp(ə)l|
[ad. L. octupl-us eightfold, f. octo eight + -plus, as in duplus double. Cf. F. octuple (1552 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
A. adj. Eightfold; eight times as much as{ddd}; composed of eight.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1046 The Diameters of Venus and the earth, are in double proportion, but their globes or sphæres beare octuple proportion, to wit, eight for one. 1656Stanley Hist. Philos. v. (1701) 162/2 The Overseers of the Altar, made all the four sides double to what they were before, so instead of doubling the Altar they made it Octuple to what it was. 1677Plot Oxfordsh. 293 To quadruple the distance..in octuple the time. 1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1843) I. 56 Its..triple or sometimes octuple teguments. 1879H. W. Warren Recr. Astron. x. 214 The octuple star σ in Orion.
B. n. That which is eight times something else, or consists of eight parts.
1692Capt. Smith's Seaman's Gram. ii. xv. 123 The Octuple thereof is 2.0. 1856Illustr. Lond. News 2 Feb. 110/3 A monster negotiation..called the ‘Octuple’, because eight separate Companies were parties to it.
▪ II. ˈoctuple, v.
[f. prec. n.: cf. F. octupler (1798 in Dict. Acad.).]
trans. To make eight times as much, increase eightfold.
1837T. Doubleday in Blackw. Mag. XLI. 367 This prolific community had at least octupled itself in forty years. 1893G. B. Longstaff Rural Depopul. 31 In New Hampshire..the new town populations have trebled the additions to the rural community, and in the case of Massachusetts have octupled them. |