MANIFOLD

a. n. v.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous; multiplied; complicated. O Lord, how manifold are thy works! Ps. civ. 24. I know your manifold transgressions. Amos v. 12.

2.
a.

Exhibited at divers times or in various ways; -- used to qualify nouns in the singular number. "The manifold wisdom of God." Eph. iii.

3.
a.

"The manifold grace of God." 1 Pet. iv. 10. Manifold writing, a process or method by which several copies, as of a letter, are simultaneously made, sheets of coloring paper being infolded with thin sheets of plain paper upon which the marks made by a stylus or a type-writer are transferred.

4.
n.

A copy of a writing made by the manifold process.

5.
n.

A cylindrical pipe fitting, having a number of lateral outlets, for connecting one pipe with several others.

6.
n.

The third stomach of a ruminant animal. [Local, U.S.]

7.
v.

To take copies of by the process of manifold writing; as, to manifold a letter.


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