a. (adv.). Obs. [f. FELE a.1 + FOLD.] = MANIFOLD. Also absol. in By felefold: by a great deal, many times over.
c. 1000. Ags. Ps. (Spelm.) xxxv[i]. 6. Domas ðine neowelnys micellu oððe felefeald.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 135. Alswa of ane sede cumeð fele folde weste.
c. 1205. Lay., 4249. Beoð on beoken feole feld bisnen.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 180. Boðe [temptaciuns] beoð feoleuold.
c. 1340. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight, 1545. Hit were a fole fele-folde, my fre, by my trawþe.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boeth., II. i. 30. I vnderstonde þe felefolde colour & deceites of þilke merueillous monstre fortune.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. XIII. 320. It was fouler bi felefold þan it firste semed.
b. As adv. In manifold ways.
1340. Ayenb., 212. Naȝt wordes afaited and y-sliked ueleuold.
Hence † Felefold v. Obs., to increase, multiply.
a. trans. b. intr. for refl.
a. 1300. E. E. Psalter, iii. 2.
| Laverd, hou fele-folded are þai, | |
| Þat droves me to do me wa. | |
| Ibid., xi. 9 [xii. 8]. | |
| In um-gang wicked ga sal nou, | |
| After in heghnes men sones fele-faldes tou. | |
| Ibid., cxxxviii[-ix]. 18. | |
| I sal tell þam, night and dai, | |
| And over se-sand fele-falde sal þai. |
