▪ I. reduplicate, a. and n.
(rɪˈdjuːplɪkeɪt)
[ad. late L. reduplicāt-us: see re- and duplicate a., and cf. next.]
A. adj.
1. Doubled, repeated.
| 1647 H. More Song of Soul ii. ii. ii. xxxvi, Lesse active, lesse reduplicate, lesse free. 1822–34 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 48 It exhibits the two following varieties:..Reduplicate menstruation. 1827 Hood Mids. Fairies lxii, By silver trouts upspringing from green sheen, And winking stars reduplicate at night, Spare us. 1879 Khory Princ. Med. 57 Very often the sounds are more or less doubled or repeated and are called reduplicate sounds. |
b. Gram. Reduplicated; connected with or involving reduplication.
| 1841 Latham Eng. Lang. xvi. 276 In the present English there is no Perfect or Reduplicate form. 1844 Proc. Philol. Soc. I. 265 Buttmann conjectures it to be nothing more than a mutilation of the reduplicate prefix of the perfect. 1880 Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 3) §285 The German ging..indicates a reduplicate form which was lost in English. |
2. Bot. Valvate, with the edges reflexed.
| 1856 Henslow Dict. Bot. Terms. 1870 Bentley Man. Bot. (ed. 2) 211 When the margins are turned outwards under the same circumstances, the æstivation is reduplicate. |
B. n. A double (one), a duplicate.
| 1657 Gaule Sapientia Justificata 73 Therefore then (the illative is a reduplicate, and concludes so much the stronger) etc. 1803 G. S. Faber Cabiri II. 275 note, It is manifest, that both these stories are in substance the same, for the second is merely the reduplicate of the first. 1816 ― Orig. Pagan Idol. II. 238 Which number [14] is the mere reduplicate of seven. |
▪ II. reduplicate, v.
(rɪˈdjuːplɪkeɪt)
[f. ppl. stem of med.L. reduplicāre, f. re- re- + duplicāre to duplicate: cf. prec.]
1. a. trans. To make double; to repeat, redouble.
| 1570 Levins Manip. 42/13 To Reduplicate, reduplicare. a 1657 R. Loveday Lett. (1663) 256, I think it will prove no unwelcom Office to you, to reduplicate the old token. 1660 Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. iii. i. rule 1 §20 When the preceptive or prohibitive clauses are reduplicated. 1717 L. Howel Desiderius (ed. 3) 79 He reduplicates his consolatory Grace. 1812 G. Chalmers Dom. Econ. Gt. Brit. 428 The Irish people..augmented their gains, and reduplicated their capital. 1850 B. Taylor Eldorado I. iv. 23 The firmament..reduplicating its hues on the glassy sea. 1878 H. C. Lea Superst. & Force, Wager of Law (ed. 3) 27 The plan of reduplicating oaths on different altars was an established practice among the Anglo-Saxons. |
b. Gram. To repeat (a letter or syllable); to form (a tense) by reduplication.
| 1832 Lee Hebr. Gram. (ed. 2) vii. 105 Those [nouns] which are augmented,..reduplicating, or not, at the same time, any of their letters or syllables. 1869 Farrar Fam. Speech iii. (1873) 88 In the perfect the second letter is often reduplicated, as in Rabab. 1894 Henry Comp. Gram. Eng. & Germ. 307 Hence the perfects of type G were clearly reduplicated in Pregermanic. |
2. intr. To become double or doubled. rare.
| 1866 London Rev. 6 Jan. 6/2 The people..went on reduplicating with a fecundity which [etc.]. 1973 Sci. Amer. Feb. 59/1 The manner in which two-syllable adjectives reduplicate is different... A verb reduplicates by the entire word, but the adjective reduplicates in terms of its constituent syllables. |