Meanings
verbduplify (third-person singular simple present duplifies, present participle duplifying, simple past and past participle duplified)
present singular third person duplifies · participle present duplifying · participle past duplified · past duplified
- obsoletetransitiveTo double.
If the bees of a triplet lie out, before the uſual time of deprivation, it ſhould be taken and placed at a conſiderable diſtance, and the duplified ſtock raiſed on a nadir hive: […]
1796, John Keys, “Of Storifying” (chapter X), in The Antient Bee-Maſter's Farewell; or, Full and Plain Directions for the Management of Bees to the greateſt Advantage, London: […] G. G.; J. Robinson, page 67
Origin
- Latinduplus“double”
- Englishduplify
From Latin duplus (“double”) + -ify.
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