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quadruple(1) (iou)



quadruple noun & adjective. LME.
[Old & mod. French, from Latin quadruplus, formed as QUADRU- + -plus as in duplus DUPLE.]
A. noun. A fourfold number or amount. LME.
b. adjective. Consisting of four parts or things; having four participants; four times as many or as much, fourfold. M16.
quadruple counterpoint four-part counterpoint in which the parts may be interchanged. quadruple time Music a rhythm or time having four beats in a bar. quadruple alliance Hist. an alliance of four powers, esp. that of Britain, France, Germany, and the Netherlands in 1718, and of Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal in 1834.
Ld Macaulay The value of silver was more than quadruple of what it now is.

misgive (medicine)


misgive


1. To give or grant amiss.

2. Specifically: To give doubt and apprehension to, instead of confidence and courage; to impart fear to; to make irresolute; usually said of the mind or heart, and followed by the objective personal pronoun. "So doth my heart misgive me in these conflicts What may befall him, to his harm and ours." (Shak) "Such whose consciences misgave them, how ill they had deserved." (Milton)

3. To suspect; to dread.

Origin: Misgave; Misgiven; Misgiving.

Source: Websters Dictionary