centuplicate
Americanverb (used with object)
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Etymology
Origin of centuplicate
1825–35; < Latin centuplic- (stem of centuplex ) hundredfold, equivalent to centu ( m ) 100 + plic- (stem of plicāre to fold) + -ate 1
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That being infinitely Powerful, all the sins of all the inhabitants of all the worlds, thousands of times centuplicated, can never dim an atom of my glory.
From The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico The Eldorado of the Orient by Halstead, Murat
When finished, it will be centuplicated or more, if necessary, and, as is said, a copy deposited in every corporate town in the kingdom.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 422 Volume 17, New Series, January 31, 1852 by Chambers, Robert
He would have disconcerted the foreign powers, augmented his popularity, centuplicated his forces: but on the first of June it was too late: the additional act had appeared.
From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron
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