单词 | sextuply |
释义 | † sextuplyv. Scots Law. Obsolete. rare. intransitive. To make a rejoinder to a quintuplication. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > pleading > plead [verb (intransitive)] > make other replies in pleading rejoin1447 triply1504 duply1631 rebut1652 quintuply1663 sextuply1673 1673 Rec. Justic. Court Edinb. (S.H.S.) II. 167 Quintuplyes his Majesties Advocate, that..Sextuplyes Sir Geo. McKenzie, that, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2019). sextuplyadv. In a sixfold manner; to six times the usual extent or degree. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > six > [adverb] > sixfold sextuply1610 1610 S. Davies in R. Vaughan Most Approved Water-workes. sig. D v These rich Water-workes worke leisurely Most quick increase, in Earths most barren Wombe, Which beares what One doth ten times sextuply. 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. 1873 J. C. Maxwell Treat. Electr. & Magnetism I. 175 In the sextuply connected part of the spherical surface. 1946 M. Lowry Let. c15 Dec. (1995) I. 664 You can listen to the thrice god-awful shindy coming out of juke boxes or the sextuply beyond god-awful hillbilly music that seems to have put a stop here to jazz. 1999 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 357 1207 (caption) Singly, doubly, triply, quadruply, quintuply and sextuply charged parent and fragment ions of C70. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1673adv.1610 |
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