quadruplicity
Americannoun
-
the state or fact of being quadruple or fourfold.
-
Astrology. the division of the signs of the zodiac into three groups of four signs each, the cardinal signs, the fixed signs, and the mutable signs, with each sign separated from the next nearest within the group by 90 degrees of the ecliptic.
Etymology
Origin of quadruplicity
1580–90; < Latin quadruplic-, stem of quadruplex quadruplex + -ity, on the model of duplicity, etc.
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
