fourfold

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

fourfold
    adv 1: by a factor of four; "the price of gasoline has increased
           fourfold over the past two years" [syn: {fourfold}, {four
           times}]
    adj 1: four times as great or many; "a fourfold increase in the
           dosage" [syn: {quadruple}, {fourfold}, {four-fold}]
    2: having four units or components; "quadruple rhythm has four
       beats per measure"; "quadruplex wire" [syn: {quadruple},
       {quadruplicate}, {quadruplex}, {fourfold}, {four-fold}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Fourfold \Four"fold`\, a. & adv. [AS. fe['o]werfeold.]
   Four times; quadruple; as, a fourfold division.
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         He shall restore the lamb fourfold.      --2 Sam. xii.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Fourfold \Four"fold`\, n.
   Four times as many or as much.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Fourfold \Four"fold`\, v. t.
   To make four times as much or as many, as an assessment; to
   quadruple.
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