centuple

American  

[sen-tuh-puhl, -tyuh-] / ˈsɛn tə pəl, -tjə- /

adjective

1. a hundred times as great; hundredfold.

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verb (used with object)

centupled, centupling

1. to increase 100 times.

Etymology

Origin of centuple

1600–10; < Middle French < Late Latin centuplus, equivalent to Latin centu ( m ) 100 + -plus -fold

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Example Sentences

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centuple centupled

I knew that thou wilt give him the centuple, and therefore thought only how I could reach thee the soonest.

From Caucasian Legends by Abraam Abraamovich Goulbat

MOR: Why, you do more in this, sir: it were a vengeance centuple, for all facinorous acts that could be named, to do that you do.

From Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

Kvarobligante sepdek kvin vi ricevas la centoblon de tri = By quadrupling 75 you get the centuple of 3.

From The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary by George Cox

Every word has a double, treble, or centuple use and meaning.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The effect is that of the Zalinski shell, but centupled by the infinite power of Roch’s fulgurator.

From Facing the Flag by Jules Verne

And this my resolution, mark me, madam; Were Overreach's 'states thrice centupled; his daughter Millions of degrees much fairer than she is, I would not so adulterate my blood By marrying Margaret.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter

Our capital would infallibly have been quadrupled,—what do I say? decupled, centupled, in a short space of time.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 by Various

In fourteen years from the first issue of small notes, the number of convictions had been centupled.

From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury

The surprises are centupled in the animal; and are raised to an unknown degree in man.

From Cæsar or Nothing by Louis How

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