The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eightfold \Eight"fold`\, a. Eight times a quantity.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English eahtafeald; see eight + -fold.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Eight times as much; multiplied by eight. 2 Containing eight parts. adv. Eight times as much.
WordNet
adj. having eight units or components [syn: octuple]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "eightfold".
Hope said he had always wanted to be like Asoka, and mentioned the four great truths Buddha spoke of: existence is suffering, the origin of suffering is desire, suffering ceases when desire ceases, and the way to reach the end of desire was to follow the Eightfold Path.
DNA coding sequence of the D4 receptor, a forty-eight base-pair sequence that controls clozapine and spiperone binding, especially when it appears as an eightfold repeat.
Noble Eightfold Path, a set of moral and meditational practices by which false views and retribution-earning acts were eliminated.
I am Baphomet, that is the Eightfold Word that shall be equilibrated with the Three.
But, for now, we are simply two old men who would follow the eightfold path.
It is only when one follows the Noble Eightfold path taught by the Buddha and eventually attains Nirvana, that one finally becomes free from this ceaseless cycle and gains supreme and permanent happiness.
Together, they taught of the Way of the Eightfold Path, the glory of Nirvana, the illusion of the world and the chains that the world lays upon a man.
The Eightfold Path required right view, which she took to mean that she should look at the problem in the right manner.
That made the other requirements of the Eightfold Path fall into line: Right intention -- she really wanted to do the right thing.
That made the other requirements of the Eightfold Path fall into line: Right intention&mdash.
That made the other requirements of the Eightfold Path fall into line: Right intention—.
That made the other requirements of the Eightfold Path fall into line: Right intention-she really wanted to do the right thing.
In turn, achievement of these steps requires following the eightfold Path of Chaos through application of the Foursome Random Axioms.
It makes me realize how far I have strayed from the Noble Eightfold Path.
The successful following of the Eightfold Path led to nirvana, the 'snuffing out' of the force that led to rebirth.