| 释义 |
† quadruplator Obs.
[a. L. quadruplātor, (1) a public informer, (2) one who multiplies by four (see prec.). The exact origin of sense 1 is not certain, though there is probably some connexion with quadruplum a fourfold penalty.]
a. A public informer.
b. One who restores fourfold.
1624Sanderson Serm. I. 109 Our prouling informers, like those old sycophants in Athens, or the quadruplators in Rome. Ibid. 114 Zacheus..imposed upon himself..a four-fold restitution... Here was a right quadruplator indeed; and in the best sence. 1647Trapp Comm. Matt. viii. 32 A cunning fetch of an old quadruplator.
So † quadruplation, multiplying by four. Obs.
1557Recorde Whetst. N n iv b, That must be doen by that quadriplation as you taught before. 1658in Phillips. |