quadruplication

[Lat. quadruplicatio, from quadruplicatus, pa. par. of quadruplico to quadruplicate (q.v.).] The act or proce of quadruplicating; the state of being quadruplicated. *quad-rû-pliç'-I-ty, s. [As if from a Lat. quad ruplicitas .] The state or condition of being fourfold. ""Mongst the quadruplicity Of elemental e ence, terra is but thought To be a punctum." Greene: Friar Bacon. quãd-ru-plý, adv . [Eng. quadrup ( le ); -ly.] In a quadruple, or fourfold manner or degree; to a fourfold quantity or degree. "The innocent person is quadruply recompensed for the lo of time."- Swift : Gulliver's Travels ( Lilliput ), ch. vi. quær-ě, subst . [Lat., imper. sing. of quæro =to seek, to inquire.] Seek, inquire; question. When placed before or after a proposition or word, quære p. 291) notes that, though even then "apparently unknown," in 1835 "it was very numerous in the plains north [a mis print for south of the Vaal river." Height at shoulders about four feet; striped only on head, neck, and shoulders; prevailing color brown; abdomen, legs, and part of tail whitish-gray. Quagga. 2. Equus burchellii . [ZEBRA.] quag-gy, a. [Eng. quag ; -y.] Boggy; soft or yielding like a quagmire. "Which lives for all, who flounder boldly on Through quaggy bogs." Blackie: Lays of Highlands and Islands, p. 191.