[a. F. centuple, ad. L. centŭp-lus, in late use for centuplex, f. centum hundred + -plic- fold. Cf. double, treble, quadruple.] A hundred-fold.
1577. Patericke, trans. Gentillet’s Agst. Machiavel, (1602), 292. So I do beleeve them to be double, yea, centuple slaves and miserable, which suffer their spirits to bee persuaded and deluded with the doctrine and impietie of Machiavell.
1609. B. Jonson, Sil. Wom., II. ii. (1612), D. It were a vengeance centuple.
1639. Massinger, Unnat. Combat, I. i. C 3 b. I wish his strength were centuple.
1674. Petty, Disc. bef. Royal Soc., 109. A Diamond of Decuple weight, is of Centuple value.
1829. Carlyle, Misc. (1857), II. 10. To more than centuple that sum.
1844. Emerson, Ess., Ser. II. i. (1876), 12. The quadruple, or the centuple, or much more manifold meaning, of every sensuous fact.
