centuple
Americanadjective
verb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of centuple
1600–10; < Middle French < Late Latin centuplus, equivalent to Latin centu ( m ) 100 + -plus -fold
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Every word has a double, treble, or centuple use and meaning.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
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 Jonson, Ben
I knew that thou wilt give him the centuple, and therefore thought only how I could reach thee the soonest.
From Caucasian Legends by Goulbat, Abraam Abraamovich
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 Cox, George
The effect is that of the Zalinski shell, but centupled by the infinite power of Roch’s fulgurator.
From Facing the Flag by Verne, Jules
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 Thornbury, Walter
That sum in other cases is an insult, which, being centupled, would be an honourable expression of distinguished merit.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
And, like to that grain of powder which, burning, dilates into a centupled volume, D'Artagnan, enlarged by ideas and suspicions, rapidly reascended the stairs toward the terrace.
From The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Dumas père, Alexandre
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 Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)
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