"decuply" meaning in English

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Adverb

Etymology: From decuple + -ly. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|decuple|ly}} decuple + -ly Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} decuply (not comparable)
  1. (rare) In a decuple manner. Tags: not-comparable, rare
    Sense id: en-decuply-en-adv-SNeILbFM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ly

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          "ref": "1850 April 6, a National Reformer [James Bronterre O’Brien], “The Rise, Progress, and Phases of Human Slavery: How It Came into the World, and How It Shall Be Made to Go Out”, in George W[illiam] M[acArthur] Reynolds, editor, Reynold’s Political Instructor, volume I, number 22, London: […] for the Proprietor, by John Dicks, […]; Paris: [John] A[nthony] and W[illiam] Galignani, […], page 172",
          "text": "But is it true that no parliamentary cure is findable for the disease? that the evil is one beyond the reach of legislative control? that, after all, the boasted “omnipotence of parliament” (which, Blackstone tells us, can do anything and everything not naturally impossible)—is it true, that this boasted omnipotence cannot secure for an Englishman the food he has raised,—the bread he has earned,—nay, doubly, trebly, quintuply, decuply earned?",
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          "text": "If the particular spirit addressed is not present—(they cannot be evoked, but they are generally present when invoked by the call of sympathy and affection)—you are told so by some other spirit, whose communication shows his full cognisance of the contents of your quadruply or decuply folded inquiry.",
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          "ref": "[1974], Victor Segalen, translated by J[ames] A[mery] Underwood, René Leys, Chicago, Ill.: J. Philip O’Hara, Inc., →OCLC, page 173",
          "text": "After all, as chief of the secret police and lover of the Empress he alone—I shall tell him—is doubly, or is it decuply, paid for that purpose.",
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