Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A hundred-fold greater; multiplied by a hundred.
  • To make a hundred times more; multiply by a hundred.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Hundredfold.
  • transitive verb To increase a hundredfold.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Hundredfold. Multiplied by one hundred.
  • verb To increase a hundredfold.

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Examples

  • Now let the centuple celves of my egourge as Micholas de Cusack calls them, — of all of whose

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Every word has a double, treble, or centuple use and meaning.

    XVIII. Essays. Beauty. 1860 1909

  • Every word has a double, treble, or centuple use and meaning.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson Holmes, Oliver W 1891

  • The Dauphiness [2] is said to have flung herself at the King of France's feet and begged his protection for her father; that he promised “qu'il le rendroit au centuple au Roi de Prusse.”

    Letters of Horace Walpole 01 Walpole, Horace 1890

  • The Fourth Book (Third of _Pantagruel_) starts the voyage, and begins to lead the commentator who insists on fixing and interpreting the innumerable real or apparent double, treble, and almost centuple meanings, into a series of dances almost illimitable.

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

  • I also felt pain, and to avoid its endurance for me, I openly and avowedly burdened others with double, treble, centuple its amount.

    Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times 1851

  • Every word has a double, treble, or centuple use and meaning.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • I say the quadruple or the centuple or much more manifold meaning, of every sensuous fact; Orpheus, Empedocles, Heraclitus, Plato, Plutarch,

    Essays — Second Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842

  • Tout ce que la centralisation laisse entrevoir de défauts, de ridicules et absurdités, d'oppression, de paperasseries en France, est grossi en Afrique au centuple.

    Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 Alexis de Tocqueville 1832

  • The vital principle of a bank is security in the regularity of its operations, and the immediate convertibility of its paper into coin; and what confidence could be reposed in an institution or its paper promises, when the sovereign could at any moment centuple those promises in the market, and seize upon all the money in the bank?

    The Crayon Papers Washington Irving 1821

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