▪ I. triply, n. Sc. Law. Obs. exc. Hist.
(trɪˈplaɪ)
[ad. OF. triplique (treplicque, 1392–3 in Godef. Compl.); cf. also reply, duply, quadruply.]
A third reply; a pursuer's reply to a defender's rejoinder; a surrejoinder. Also allusively.
| 1531 in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. i. 71 Notwithstanding the rights, replies and triplies produced on the part of John Kynross, not proved. 1643 Baillie Lett., to W. Spang 7 Dec. (1841) II. 109 When, upon every proposition by itself, and on everie text of Scripture..the replyes, and duplies, and triplies, are heard. 1678 Sir G. Mackenzie Crim. Laws Scot. ii. xxiii. §9 (1699) 253 After they have ended, His Majesties Advocat speaks, but there are no Duplys, or Triplys used. a 1693, 1760, 1820, 1881 [see duply]. 1695, 1762 [see quadruply]. |
So triˈply v. [cf. OF. tripliquer (1310 in Godef.)], to make a triply or reply to a defender's rejoinder (trans. and intr.).
| 1504 in Charters &c. of Stirling (1884) 68 Till obiect, except, and aganesay, to repley, dupley, tripley, and quadrupley. 1662 Justiciary Records (S.H.S. 1905) 44 Triplied by Birnie. He oppones the answers. 1678 Sir G. Mackenzie Crim. Laws Scot. i. xxiv. §4 (1699) 123 To which it was triplyed, that the Act of Parliament, discharging Usurary Wadsets doth not discharge Tacks. 1766 State of Proc., Dk. Roxburgh v. Pringle 7 Duplied for the Defender..Triplied for the Pursuer, That as..this Question must go to Proof [etc.]. |
▪ II. triply, adv.
(ˈtrɪplɪ)
[f. triple a. + -ly2.]
In a triple degree or manner; three times.
| 1660 R. Coke Power & Subj. 191 If he will purge himself he may do it triply. 1826 Disraeli Viv. Grey ii. ii, His large library table, once triply covered with official communications. 1885 M. E. Braddon Wyllard's Weird III. xxxi. 210 She had heard her husband proclaim himself triply an assassin. |
| Comb. 1785 Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxxii. (1794) 490 The common Fern..has superdecompound, or triplypinnate fronds. 1819 Pantologia, Triply-ternate, triternate. 1865 Mrs. L. L. Clarke Common Seaweeds iii. 67 Fan-like, rose-coloured varieties, or triply-branched. 1899 Rodway Guiana Wilds 27 A triply-armed clump of palms. |