quadruplicate
nounEtymology From Latin quadruplicatus.
1
in quadruplicate: four times over, in four copies
- Four times Cupid's debtor I-- / Bankrupt in quadruplicate.c. 1886, Rudyard Kipling, The Lovers' Litany:
quadruplicate
adjUS /ˌkwɑˈdɹuːplɪkət/
Etymology From Latin quadruplicatus.
1
having four parts
- The small schools might specialize upon the type locally most desirable, the larger might group its triplicate (or quadruplicate) system of sustained and serious courses about a common Library […]1903, H.G. Wells, Mankind in the Making:
2
four times over, multiplied by four
- […] Fortune, who delights in making the miner or the lumber-man a quadruplicate millionaire and in "busting" the railroad king.1891, Rudyard Kipling, American Notes: