four-fold adj 1: having four units or components; "quadruple rhythm has four beats per measure"; "quadruplex wire" [syn: {quadruple}, {quadruplicate}, {quadruplex}, {fourfold}, {four-fold}] 2: four times as great or many; "a fourfold increase in the dosage" [syn: {quadruple}, {fourfold}, {four-fold}]
Fourfold \Four"fold`\, a. & adv. [AS. fe['o]werfeold.] Four times; quadruple; as, a fourfold division. [1913 Webster] He shall restore the lamb fourfold. --2 Sam. xii. 6. [1913 Webster]
Fourfold \Four"fold`\, n. Four times as many or as much. [1913 Webster]
Fourfold \Four"fold`\, v. t. To make four times as much or as many, as an assessment; to quadruple. [1913 Webster]