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

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

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

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

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 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

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

From Cæsar or Nothing by Louis How

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 Alexandre Dumas père

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

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