Crossword clues for fivefold
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fivefold \Five"fold`\ (f[imac]v"-f[=o]ld`), a. & adv. In fives; consisting of five in one; five repeated; quintuple.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from earlier use as an adjective, from Old English fiffeald (adj.); see five + -fold.
Wiktionary
a. In fives; consisting of five in one; five repeated; quintuple. adv. By a factor of five.
WordNet
adj. having five units or components [syn: quintuple]
Usage examples of "fivefold".
He was hoping to find something that might give him some clue to the fate of the Siamese ruby that had vanished with its fivefold nest of ivory boxes.
Under that fusillade, Alexander Talbor, man of fivefold crime, wilted and sprawled dead.
Cabon returned to ritual and called down the fivefold benison, asking of each god the proper gifts, leading the respondents in praise in return.
He had no need of a wife, particularly not one who called him a fivefold fool and made him a sixfold fool by sending him on to such a cell without even a kiss.
Farragut became the ranking admiral just when the United States Navy was having its hardest struggle to do its fivefold duty well.
They put a man in a suit, took him up into orbit, and at an altitude of some hundred thousand kilometers, where the Earth shines like the Moon enlarged fivefold, simply tossed him out of the rocket into space, and then flew away.
Wheat, I gather, is tolerated only grudgingly, deemed spiritually unworthy but somehow necessary: it undergoes a rigorous fivefold sifting and tenfold milling, accompanied by special meditations, before it is made into bread.
Haymarket Anarchists, no doubt is left that a fivefold legal murder had been committed in Chicago, in 1887.
Is it the Himalayas sheer, The rocks and valleys of Cashmere, Or Indus as she seeks the south From Attoch to the fivefold mouth?
There we find the number five confronting us in the well-known star-like figure, represented by the fivefold pericarp in the centre of the apple.
Wingfield saw no way of escape from the malice of his accusers, whose purpose he suspected was to fine him fivefold for all the supplies whose disposition he could not account for in writing: but he was finally allowed to appeal to the King for mercy, and recommitted to the pinnace.
As I understand the society, its objects are fivefold - first, to guarantee annuities which, it is always to be observed, is paid out of the interest of invested capital, so that those annuities may be secure and safe - annual pensions, varying from 10 to 25 pounds, to distressed railway officers and servants incapacitated by age, sickness, or accident.