c1638 Tractatus Legum Navalium 56 How soon the persewar hes made anseris or quintupleyes to the reformed eikes or quadrupleyes.

1663 in Rec. Justiciary Ct. (1905) I. 78 Sustains the Defence, Duply and Quadruply, for the Pannell, and repells Triply and Quintuply proponit for the Pursuer.

1775 Session Papers in Sc. National Dict. (1968) VII. (at cited word) The answers to the complainer's bill of suspension, which have been followed with replies, duplies, triplies, quadruplies and quintuplies.

1901 Scotsman 20 Nov. 9 Thus we have the replies of the defendant counsel showing why the indictment is not relevant..to which the Lord Advocate ‘propones’ a ‘duply’ showing the reason why it is relevant; to be followed on the other side with a ‘triply’, which is answered,..by an opposing ‘quadruply’, and so on through a ‘quintuply’ and it may be a ‘sextuply’.

1663 Proc. Justiciary Court (MS.) 85 Quintuplyes Maxwell for the Pursuer.

1669 in M. P. Brown Suppl. Dict. Decisions Court of Session (1826) II. 447 Duplied... Triplied... Quadruplied... Quintuplied.

1674 Proc. Justiciary Court (MS.) 654 Quintuplys. Sir Andrew Birnie. That the Defender Robert Steuart cannot pretend ignorance [etc.].

1770 Session Papers in Sc. National Dict. (1968) VII. (at cited word) Quintuplied, that it seems now acknowledged that a proof is intended of a march different from that pointed out to the commissioners.

1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at Melastoma Leaves quintuply nerved.

1843 N. Hawthorne Notebk. 9 Apr. in Atlantic Monthly (1866) Oct. 450/2 Then I read, and re-read, and re-re-read, and quadruply, quintuply, and sextuply re-read my epistle, until I had it all by heart.

1870 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) I. v. v. 548 We may say that they [sc. sensations] are thus characterized by being quintuply-clustered.

1924 H. Craig Jonathan Swift p. xiv Gone, or almost gone, are the romances so readily fabricated by his early biographers; the quintuply improbable story of a secret marriage to Stella in a garden, by a bishop, and without a license.

1954 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 226 242 This quintuply inflected form of pressure distribution is observed only when transition occurs a long way ahead of the shock.

1999 J. Elkins What Painting Is (2000) vii. 169 The Hebrew may be a Kabbalistic cipher, quintuply protected by its language, its inaccurate printing, its esoteric Jewish doctrine, its encipherment, and the dense undergrowth of the surrounding text.