decuply

decuply

English

Etymology

From decuple +‎ -ly.

Adverb

decuply (not comparable)

1. (rare) In a decuple manner.
   • 1842 August, Polygon, “The Polygon Papers. Number Five.”, in The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, volume XX, number 2, New York, N.Y.: […] John Allen, […], page 115:

     Blessed be Cadmus, author of letters, and decuply blessed be Faustus, father of type!

   • 1847 February 9, The Morning Post, number 22,834, London, page 4:

     A commodity almost scarcer than any other, and rendered doubly, quadruply, nay decuply scarce by the bare fact that, being the principal currency abroad, as well as at home, the whole world are scrambling with one another to obtain it, and competitors against us in every market for securing the first and largest supplies of it?

   • 1850 April 6, a National Reformer [James Bronterre O’Brien], “The Rise, Progress, and Phases of Human Slavery: How It Came into the World, and How It Shall Be Made to Go Out”, in George W[illiam] M[acArthur] Reynolds, editor, Reynold’s Political Instructor, volume I, number 22, London: […] for the Proprietor, by John Dicks, […]; Paris: [John] A[nthony] and W[illiam] Galignani, […], page 172:

     But is it true that no parliamentary cure is findable for the disease? that the evil is one beyond the reach of legislative control? that, after all, the boasted “omnipotence of parliament” (which, Blackstone tells us, can do anything and everything not naturally impossible)—is it true, that this boasted omnipotence cannot secure for an Englishman the food he has raised,—the bread he has earned,—nay, doubly, trebly, quintuply, decuply earned?

   • 1881 August 12, “Clairvoyance”, in The Medium and Daybreak. A Weekly Journal Devoted to the History, Phenomena, Philosophy, and Teachings of Spiritualism, volume XII, number 593, London: J[ames] Burns, […], page 502:

     If the particular spirit addressed is not present—(they cannot be evoked, but they are generally present when invoked by the call of sympathy and affection)—you are told so by some other spirit, whose communication shows his full cognisance of the contents of your quadruply or decuply folded inquiry.

   • [1974], Victor Segalen; J[ames] A[mery] Underwood, transl., René Leys, Chicago, Ill.: J. Philip O’Hara, Inc., →ISBN, OCLC 2634135, page 173:

     After all, as chief of the secret police and lover of the Empress he alone—I shall tell him—is doubly, or is it decuply, paid for that purpose.

   • 2007, Jack Kyte, “Folding and Assembly”, in Structure in Protein Chemistry, second edition, Garland Science, →ISBN, section “Assembly of Helical Polymeric Proteins”, page 722:

     Individual subunits, if no distinction is made between α and β, lie on a triply threaded, left-handed screw (n = −3) and a decuply threaded, right-handed screw (n = 10).

   • 2018, Autumn Reed; Julia Clarke, Polaris (book six of The Stardust Series), →ISBN:

     “Actually, since there are five of us, it should be quintuply amazing already,” Liam said, smirking at me as if he realized something that would make himself giddy and me annoyed. “If we double that, then it has to be decuply amazing.”