2. Verb. (third-person singular of multiply) ¹
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Definition of Multiplies
1. multiply [v] - See also: multiply
Lexicographical Neighbors of Multiplies
Literary usage of Multiplies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1891)
"Cumulative evidence is evidence of the same kind to the same point—evidence which
merely multiplies witnesses to a fact, before investigated, ..."
2. Sermons and discourses on several subjects and occasions by Francis Atterbury (1820)
"Anxiety of mind, therefore, makes us feel a thousand afflictions, which will
never overtake us, and multiplies those which certainly will. ..."
3. War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ by David Low Dodge, Edwin Doak Mead (1905)
"WAR IS INHUMAN, AS IT multiplies WIDOWS AND ORPHANS, AND CLOTHES THE LAND IN
MOURNING The widow and fatherless are special objects of divine compassion, ..."
4. A History of the Earth and Animated Nature by Oliver Goldsmith (1856)
"The hare multiplies exceedingly ; it is in ц summer, the bead is reddish-brown,
the lipa and chin brownish-white, the ears dusky on their anterior half, ..."
5. The Chemistry of Common Life by James Finlay Weir Johnston, Arthur Herbert Church (1891)
"How the yeast-plant grows and multiplies ; its remarkable influence still
inexplicable.—Composition of beer.—Proportions of malt-extract and of alcohol. ..."
6. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1891)
"Cumulative evidence is evidence of the same kind to the same point—evidence which
merely multiplies witnesses to a fact, before investigated, ..."
7. Sermons and discourses on several subjects and occasions by Francis Atterbury (1820)
"Anxiety of mind, therefore, makes us feel a thousand afflictions, which will
never overtake us, and multiplies those which certainly will. ..."
8. War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ by David Low Dodge, Edwin Doak Mead (1905)
"WAR IS INHUMAN, AS IT multiplies WIDOWS AND ORPHANS, AND CLOTHES THE LAND IN
MOURNING The widow and fatherless are special objects of divine compassion, ..."
9. A History of the Earth and Animated Nature by Oliver Goldsmith (1856)
"The hare multiplies exceedingly ; it is in ц summer, the bead is reddish-brown,
the lipa and chin brownish-white, the ears dusky on their anterior half, ..."
10. The Chemistry of Common Life by James Finlay Weir Johnston, Arthur Herbert Church (1891)
"How the yeast-plant grows and multiplies ; its remarkable influence still
inexplicable.—Composition of beer.—Proportions of malt-extract and of alcohol. ..."
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