Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fourfold \Four"fold`\, n. Four times as many or as much.
Fourfold \Four"fold`\, v. t. To make four times as much or as many, as an assessment; to quadruple.
Fourfold \Four"fold`\, a. & adv. [AS. fe['o]werfeold.] Four times; quadruple; as, a fourfold division.
He shall restore the lamb fourfold.
--2 Sam. xii.
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English feowerfeald; see four + -fold. As an adverb from 1530s. Similar formation in Old Frisian fiuwerfald, Dutch viervoudig, Old High German fiervalt, German vierfältig, Danish firfold, Gothic fidurfalþs.
Wiktionary
a. 1 four times as great 2 quadruple adv. by a factor of four
WordNet
adj. four times as great or many; "a fourfold increase in the dosage" [syn: quadruple]
having four units or components; "quadruple rhythm has four beats per measure"; "quadruplex wire" [syn: quadruple, quadruplicate, quadruplex]
adv. by a factor of four; "the price of gasoline has increased fourfold over the past two years" [syn: four times]
Usage examples of "fourfold".
These farms must be made to yield fourfold their present product, or they will fall short, not only of the demands made upon them, but also of their possibilities.
He gave no larger financial grants for school-garden contests, but he increased fourfold the number of letters of advice sent out monthly to rural educators: advice on whether blackboards should be greenboards or blueboards, advice on reading poetry, advice on the established code for school janitors.
Germany, the ceremonial City, fourfold as expected, an eerie precision to all lines and shadings architectural and human, built in mandalic form like a Herero village, overhead a magnificent sky, marble carried to a wild-ness of white billow and candescence .
After this, providing you with the fourfold wings of the quadrivials that ye might be winged like the seraphs and so mount above the cherubim, we sent you to a friend at whose door, if only ye importunately knocked, ye might borrow the three loaves of the Knowledge of the Trinity, in which consists the final felicity of every sojourner below.
Widest lens-opening this afternoon, extra tungsten light laid on, this rainiest day in recent memory, rocket explosions far away to south and east now and then visiting the maisonette, rattling not the streaming windows but only the doors, in slow three- and fourfold shudderings, like poor spirits, desperate for company, asking to be let in, only a moment, a touch .
I would raise the fourfold veils with my drumsticks and, once underneath, let them fall, all four at once.
But we might try to get those two to see that anything the poor devils of laborers do is bound to recoil on themselves, fourfold.
Likewise, it is just as crucial to make a comparable fourfold distinction with respect to religious practices, religious philosophies, religious doctrines, and religious fundamentalism, as follows.
The vote at the ensuing election was more than fourfold that given to Birney in 1844.
The Major forgivably exaggerated the damage his raiders had inflicted on the rebels, multiplying the wagons and ammunition destroyed at least fourfold, and while admitting to his own casualties, he claimed his men must have killed at least two score of rebels.
The oily body odor of the Llor, distinguishable at several feet by off-world noses, was multiplied fourfold in that given off by the Cos.
This bursting activity was massively - up to fourfold - higher in the methylanthranilate-traned animals than in the controls which had pecked the water bead.
Let it stand that the immediate effect here would be a price increase of the close order of fourfold.
He rapidly scrawled on the board figures that showed a fourfold increase in the electromagnetic separation of the Y-12 plant, given feed enriched to one part in seventy.