septuple, a. and n.
(ˈsɛptjuːp(ə)l)
[ad. late L. septuplus, f. septem seven: see -ple.]
A. adj.
1. Sevenfold.
| 1834 Tait's Mag. I. 456 The ‘quadruple’ alliance will very soon be..a ‘septuple’ one. 1868 Lockyer Guillemin's Heavens (ed. 3) 350, θ Orionis is a septuple star. 1882–3 Schaff in Herzog's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. I. 49 The septuple fulness of the Holy Spirit. |
2. Mus. Having seven beats in a bar.
| 1884 Grove's Dict. Mus. IV. 120/1 There seems no reason why a Composer, visited by an inspiration in that direction, should not write an Air in Septuple Time, with seven beats in a bar. |
B. n. The seventh multiple.
| 1692 Capt. Smith's Seaman's Gram. ii. xv. 123 The Cube of The Septuple thereof is 1·913. 1755 Johnson, Septuple, seven times as much. A technical term. |
So
ˈseptuple v. trans., to multiply by 7, increase 7 times;
ˌseptupliˈcation, multiplication by 7;
† septuply adv., sevenfold.
| 1615 T. Adams Blacke Devill 2 He that is quit of so bad a Guest, shall *septuple his owne woes by his re-entertainment. 1633 ― Exp. 2 Peter ii. 4 That furnace whose heate was septupled. 1833 Herschel Astron. viii. 278 Let any one figure to himself the condition of our globe, were the sun to be septupled. |
| 1674 S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 25 *Septuplication, or to multiply by 7. |
| 1654 Vilvain Theorem. Theol. viii. 299 The Churches restauration, whos glory shal *septuply exced the Suns splendor. |