multiplicioust (multiplishus)

[L. mul tiplex ( multiplici- ), multiplex, + -ous.] Manifold; multiplex. The animal [amphisbæna] is not one, but multiplicious , or many, which hath a duplicity or gemination of principal parts. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iii. 15. This sense [smelling]... although sufficiently grand and admirable, (yet) is not so multiplicious as of the eye Derham , Physico-Theology, iv. 4. or ear. IMG:content-1083.png:[blocks in formation] A multiplicity of laws give a judge as much power as a want of law, since he is ever sure to find among the number some to countenance his partiality. Goldsmith , Reverie at Boar's-Head Tavern. Multiplicity of a curve, the total number of multiple points, crunodes, acnodes, and cusps, or of their compound equivalents, belonging to it. Thus, a curve having no singularity except a ramphoid cusp has a multiplicity of 2, since a ramphoid cusp is equivalent to a simple cusp and a crunode. Order of multiplicity of a right line with reference to a surface, the number of tangent planes to the surface from the line.