multiplicate

[ muhl-tuh-pli-keyt ]

adjective

1. multiple; manifold.

multiplicate

/ ˈmʌltɪplɪˌkeɪt /

adjective

1. rare.
   manifold

Word History and Origins

Origin of multiplicate¹

1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin multiplicātus, past participle of multiplicāre to multiply ¹, increase. See multi-, plicate

Example Sentences

The exhibition’s title operates both as a nod to its multiplicate structure and, depending on how you say it, a gesture of wry self-reflexivity: You, again?

From New York Times

People were probably leaning over this barrier to get the ideal photograph, the one I had been seeing in multiplicate.

From New York Times

For the inheritance seems to consist of sets of hereditary qualities not in duplicate merely but in multiplicate; they are not all of equal strength or of equal stability; there may be a struggle amongst them; and they are subject to changes induced by the changes in the complex nutritive supply which the parental body—their bearer—affords.

From Project Gutenberg

Similarly, working in the other direction, there is struggle between parts or tissues in the body, between cells in the body, between equivalent germ-cells, and, perhaps, as Weismann pictures, between the various multiplicate items that make up our inheritance.

From Project Gutenberg

Multiplicate: with many longitudinal folds or lines of plication.

From Project Gutenberg