单词 | fivefold |
释义 | fivefoldadj.adv. A. adj. 1. Consisting of five together, comprising five things or kinds. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > five > [adjective] > fivefold fivefoldc1000 five-double1552 quintuple?1563 quintuplicate1656 quincuple1724 c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) 284 Quinarius, fiffeald. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 75 Heore fif-falde mihte hom wes al binumen. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 7836 Himm birrþ off all hiss sinne beon. Þurrh fiffald pine clennsedd. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. v. 283 Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbes, actions, and spirit. Do giue thee fiue-fold blazon. View more context for this quotation 1624 F. Quarles Job Militant (1717) 183 He hath torn me with the five-fold knot Of his sharp scourge. 1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 398 He pronounces a five-fold woe on the five great sins of the Chaldæans. 2. Five times as great or numerous; quintuple. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > five > [adjective] > five times as much quiniblea1398 fivefold1557 quintuple?1563 quincuple1724 1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Bii Quintupla. 5 to 1: 10 to 2..Fiuefolde. 1612 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. I. O.T. iii. 249 All the brethren are intertained bountifully, but Beniamin hath a fiue-fold portion. 1830 J. Bentham in Westm. Rev. 13 431 As the quantity of business-time is five-fold, so is the quantity of delay-time five-fold. B. adv. In five-fold proportion. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > five > [adverb] > in fivefold proportion fivefold1571 1571 T. Digges in L. Digges's Geom. Pract.: Pantometria xxv. sig. Ggiv The diameter of this body is fiuefolde in power greater than the side of his inscribed Cube. 1885 Manch. Examiner 20 July 6/1 London itself has increased fivefold since the century began. Derivatives ˈfivefold v. rare. transitive. To quintuple. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (transitive)] > increase by specific proportion doublec1290 treblea1325 triplea1400 redouble1477 quadruple1487 sextuple1632 quintuple1639 quinquiplicate1656 quintuplicate1676 fivefold1858 tenfold1858 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > five > [verb (transitive)] > multiply by five quintuple1639 fivefold1858 1858 H. Bushnell Serm. for New Life 165 The capacity of religion may be five-folded. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.adv.c1000 |
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