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quatrebleadj.n. Origin: A borrowing from French. Perhaps also partly a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: French quatreble , quadruple ; quadruple adj. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman quatreble fourfold (14th cent. or earlier; also as noun, ‘fourfold amount’), variant of quadruple quadruple adj., either after treble (also as trebill , treple : see treble adj. and adv.) or after quatre four (see quatre n. and compare discussion at quadri- comb. form). The β. forms could alternatively be explained as alterations of quadruple adj. after -ible suffix.With sense B. 2 compare earlier quinible n. 1. Now historical. A. adj.the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [adjective] > fourfold the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [adjective] > four times as much a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add.) f. 327v Þre is treble to oon and foure is quatreble to oon. 1454 V. 273/2 The quatreble value of Wolles..so shippid. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour (Adv.) xviii. 30 He suld fecht that day Thoucht tribill and quatribill [1487 St. John's Cambr. Tryplit or quadruplit] war thai. a1500 (?a1425) tr. (Lamb.) 82 Yn bathes..it ys to vse..odoures couenables to þe tyme..to vse in Veer and in somer, treble or quatreblee, In heruest and yn wynter to vse double. ?1553 (1952) ii. iii. 19 Ye double knave youe, will ye never be other?.. Ye quadrible knave will ye ner vse modestie? 1556 J. Heywood xcvi. 8 Double or treble (yea quatreble) cause. 1575 G. Gascoigne (ed. 2) 238 A double doore with treble lockes, quadrible barres [1573 quadriple]. 1640 R. Maddison 9 An ordinance in France to bring the forraigne Gold..into the mynt to bee there minted into French Crownes double and treble and quatreble peices. society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [adjective] > parts in harmony or counterpoint > other parts a1450 L. Power Treat. on Counterpoint in (1935) 10 242 (MED) For þe quatrebil syghte, þer be 9 acordis of discant. a1450 Musical Treat. in (1935) 10 260 (MED) The quatreble descanter shal be-gynne his descante with þe plain-song in sight & a 12 aboue in voice. 1870 6 Aug. 117/1 Power assigns the fifteenth, or double octave above the plain song, to the quatreble voice, as its highest range. 1935 10 238 In the first treatise those who take the quatreble and treble parts..are taught to visualize every note they sing as written an octave lower than its actual pitch. B. n.the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [noun] > multiplication by four > four times as much 1429 IV. 349/1 Ye partye pleynyng shal have ye quatreble of his damages. a1450 Musical Treat. in (1935) 10 266 (MED) Þe same proporcion that is betwene 2 smale numbris, þe same is be-twene here doubles & treblis & quatreblis & quiniblis. 1541 T. Elyot xvii. f. 31v If they had done euyll, they shuld paye the quatreple or foure tymes soo moche as they receyued. society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > part in harmony or counterpoint > upper parts society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [noun] > great scale or gamut > notes in gamut a1450 Musical Treat. in (1935) 10 260 (MED) This degre of descant longiþ to a childe to syng, for þe sight of þe mene & of þe quatreble beþe boþe one sight in degre; Ther-for þe mene muste be sunge of a man & þe quatreble of a childe. ?a1500 R. Cutell Treat. Descant in F. Mercer (1935) I. 700 There are 3 degrees of discant, that is to say, Mene, Treble, and Quatreble. 1504 Treat. Enformacione & Musyke in (1908) 120 425 Hys proporcions be so harde, with so hyghe a quatryble. 1855–7 W. Chappell I. 34 To sing a ‘quatrible’ [means] to descant by fourths. The..term is used by Cornish in his Treatise between Trowthe and Enformacion, 1528. 1870 W. Chappell in 4th Ser. 6 117/1 The quatreble began and ended a twelfth above [the plain song] and the quinible a fifteenth. 1967 20 194 The other voices, usually called the treble and quatreble, follow virtually the same rules, but are assigned differing sets of consonances. 1975 102 125 Though mentioning that descant could be improvised at three distinct pitches or ‘sights’, quatreble, treble and meane, Power specifically limited his treatise to the teaching of boys' voices by dealing only with the two highest. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † quatreblev.Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: quatreble adj. Etymology: < quatreble adj.In sense 2 perhaps after quatreble n. 2, although compare also quatreble adj. 2. Obsolete. rare. the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [verb (transitive)] > multiply by four a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add.) f. 267 Some serpentes haueþ many hedes, ffor somme ben double and somme y-trebled & somme quatrebled [L. sunt..quadruplata]. a1550 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun (Wemyss) cxlix. 2601 Sua triblit or contriblit [sic] were þai Agane our Scottismen þat day. 1607 J. Norden ii. 67 The profite was twice quadrebled. society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (intransitive)] > sing specific part a1527 W. Peeris Prov. in (1892) 14 477 He that quadribilithe to hy his voice is variable. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020). <  adj.n.a1398 v.a1398 |
