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Fourfold; doubled twice; four times repeated; as, a quadruplicate ratio, or a quadruplicate proportion.

The act of making fourfold; a taking four times the simple sum or amount.

The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.

Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.

The act of doubling, or the state of being doubled.

Double; formed by reduplication; reduplicate. I. Watts.

A copy of a work of art, as of a picture or satue, made by the maker of the original.

One who replies.

To reply. [Obs.]

Folded over or backward; folded back upon itself; as, a replicate leaf or petal; a replicate margin of a shell.

An answer; a reply. Shak. Withouten any repplicacioun. Chaucer.

nd a half as great (as another thing); having the ratio of two and a half to one. Sesquiduplicate ratio (Math.), the ratio of two and a half to one, or one in which the greater term contains the lesser twice and a half, as that of 50 to 20.

Subduplicate of the triplicate; -- a term applied to ratios; thus, a and a' are in the sesquiplicate ratio of b and b', when a is to a' as the square root of the cube of b is to the square root of the cube of b', or a:a'::sq. rootb3:sq. rootb'3. The periodic times of the planets are in the sesquiplicate ratio of their…

Expressed by the square root; -- said of ratios. Subduplicate ratio, the ratio of the square roots, or the square root of a ratio; thus, the subduplicate ratio of a to b is *a to *b, or *a/b.

Expressed by the cube root; -- said especially of ratios. Subtriplicate ratio, the ratio of the cube root; thus, the subtriplicate ratio of a to b is cube roota to cube rootb, or cube roota/b.

Supplication. [R.]

One who supplicates; a suppliant. The wise supplicant . . . left the event to God. Rogers.

A petition; esp., a written one, with a certificate that the conditions have been complied with.

To entreat for; to seek by earnest prayer; to ask for earnestly and humbly; as, to supplicate blessings on Christian efforts to spread the gospel.

In a supplicating manner.