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duplify (third-person singular simple present duplifies, present participle duplifying, simple past and past participle duplified)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To double.
   • 1796, John Keys, “Of Storifying” (chapter X), in The Antient Bee-Maſter's Farewell; or, Full and Plain Directions for the Management of Bees to the greateſt Advantage, London:  […] G. G.; J. Robinson, page 67:

     If the bees of a triplet lie out, before the uſual time of deprivation, it ſhould be taken and placed at a conſiderable diſtance, and the duplified ſtock raiſed on a nadir hive: […]

Further reading

• “duplify, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.