▪ I. † ˈquadruply, n. Sc. Law. Obs. rare.
[ad. obs. F. quadruplique (16th c. in Littré Suppl.); cf. duply.]
= quadruplication 2.
| 1695 Sc. Acts Will. III, c. 6 (1822) IX. 365/2 The Clerks writing of the Defences, Duplyes, Triplyes, Quadruplyes, and so furth for the defender and pursuer. 1762 (title) Quadruplies for..R. Graham..J. Bakie [etc.] to the triplies for P. Honeymoon [etc.], Feb. 10. 1820 [see duply b]. |
▪ II. quadruply, adv.
(ˈkwɒdruːplɪ)
[f. quadruple a. + -ly2.]
Four times; in a fourfold degree or manner.
| 1726 Swift Gulliver i. vi, The innocent person is quadruply recompensed..for the danger he underwent. 1793 T. Taylor Orat. Julian p. lxvi, Thy orb quadruply intersects these worlds. 1857 Geo. Eliot Ess. (1884) 4 The poet's [Young's] father was quadruply clerical, being at once rector, prebendary, court chaplain, and dean. |