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▪ I. † ˈquadruply, n. Sc. Law. Obs. rare.
[ad. obs. F. quadruplique (16th c. in Littré Suppl.); cf. duply.]
= quadruplication 2.
1695Sc. Acts Will. III, c. 6 (1822) IX. 365/2 The Clerks writing of the Defences, Duplyes, Triplyes, Quadruplyes, and so furth for the defender and pursuer. 1762(title) Quadruplies for..R. Graham..J. Bakie [etc.] to the triplies for P. Honeymoon [etc.], Feb. 10. 1820[see duply b].
▪ II. quadruply, adv.|ˈkwɒdruːplɪ|
[f. quadruple a. + -ly2.]
Four times; in a fourfold degree or manner.
1726Swift Gulliver i. vi, The innocent person is quadruply recompensed..for the danger he underwent. 1793T. Taylor Orat. Julian p. lxvi, Thy orb quadruply intersects these worlds. 1857Geo. Eliot Ess. (1884) 4 The poet's [Young's] father was quadruply clerical, being at once rector, prebendary, court chaplain, and dean. |