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a quantity confining of many names or parts, joined by 
the iigns + or —.—For railing an infinite myjtinominal 
to any given power, or extracting any given root out of 
fuch a power, fee a method of M. de Moivre, in Phil. 
Tranf. N° 2 30. Chambers. 
MULTIP'AROUS, adj. [multiparus g Lat.] Bringing 
many at a birth.—Animals feeble and timorous are gene¬ 
rally multiparous; or, if they bring forth but few at once, 
as pigeons, they compenfate that by their often breeding. 
Hay on Creation. 
MULTIPARTITE, adj. [from the Lat. multus, many, 
and pars, a part.] Having many parts; divided into feve- 
ral parts. 
MUL'TXPEDE, f. [ multipeda , Lat.] An infeCt with 
many feet; a wood-louie. Bailey. 
MUL'TIPLE, adj. [from the Lat. multus, many, and 
plico, to fold.] Manifold; numerous. 
MUL'TIPLE, f. in arithmetic, a number which may 
be divided into feveral other equal numbers without any 
remainder. 
MULTIPLEE', f. A number which may be divided 
into feveral other equal numbers without any remainder; 
as fifteen is the multiplee of five. Ajh. 
MULTIPLI'ABLE, adj. [Fr. from multiply.'] Capable 
to be multiplied. 
MULTIPLI'ABLENESS, f. Capacity of being multi¬ 
plied. 
MUL'TIPLICABLE, adj. Capable of being arithmeti¬ 
cally multiplied; multipliable. 
MULTIPLICAND,/ [multiplicandus, Lat.] The num¬ 
ber to be multiplied in arithmetic.—Multiplication hath 
the multiplicand, or number to be multiplied; the multi¬ 
plier, or number given, by w'hich the multiplicand is to 
be multiplied ; and the produCt, -or number produced by 
the other two. Cocker's Arithmetic. 
MULTIP'LICATE, adj. [from multiplico, Lat.] Con- 
filling of more than one.—In this multiplicate number of 
the eye, the objeCt feen is not multiplied, and appears 
but one, though feen wfith two or more eyes. Derham's 
JPhyjico-Theology. 
MULTIPLICATION, f. [from multiplicatio, Lat.] 
The aCt of multiplying or increafing any number by ad¬ 
dition or production of more of the lame kind.— Multipli¬ 
cation of gold and iilver was prohibited and declared to be 
felony by fiat. 5 Hen. IV. c. 4. which ftatute was made on 
a prel’umption thatperfons fliilful in chemiftry could mul¬ 
tiply or augment thefe metals, by changing other metals 
anto gold or filver. This ftatute was repealed by ftat. 
a W. and M. c. 30. Jacob. — [In arithmetic.]— Multiplica¬ 
tion is the increafing of any one number of another, fo often 
as there are units in that number by which the one is in- 
creafed. Cocker's Arithmetick. — Multiplication is a compen¬ 
dious method of addition. Arithmetic, vol. ii. p. 168. 
MULTIPLICATION TA'BLE. A table containing 
the products of the multiplication of any two faCtors from 
1 to 9, or to 12, or fometimes to a greater extent. See 
the page juft quoted.—A man had need be a good arithme¬ 
tician to underftand this author’s works : his defcription 
runs on like a multijylication-table. Addifon on Anc. Medals. 
MULTIPLICATOR,/ The number by which another 
number is multiplied.—The largeft number is ordinarily 
made the multiplicand, and placed above the fmaller, or 
multiplicator; but the refult is the fame, which foever 
of the numbers be made multiplicand or multiplicator; 
4 times 5, and 5 times 4, making the fame fum. Chambers. 
MULTIPLIC'IOUS, adj. [ multiplex, Lat.] Manifold. 
Not uj'ed. —Amphifbsena is not an animal of one denomi¬ 
nation ; for that animal is not one, but multiplicious, or 
many, which hath a duplicity or gemination of principal 
parts. Brown. 
MULTIPLICITY, / [multiplicity, Fr.] More than 
one of the fame kind.—Had they difcourfed rightly but 
upon this one principle, that God w'as a being infinitely 
perfeCt, they could never have afferted a multiplicity of 
gods: for, can one God include in him all perfections. 
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and another God include in him all perfections too ? Can 
there be any more than all ? And, if this all be in one, 
can it be alio in another ? South's Sermons. —State of being 
many.—You equal Donne in the variety, multiplicity, and 
choice, of thoughts. Dryden's Dcd. to juvcnal. 
MULTIPLIER, J‘. [from multiply.] One who multi¬ 
plies or increafes the number of any thing—Broils and 
quarrels are alone the great accumulators and multipliers 
of injuries. Decay of Chr. Piety. —The multiplicator 'in 
arithmetic.—Multiplication hath the multiplicand, and 
the midtiplier, or number given by which the multipli¬ 
cand is to be multiplied. Cocker's Arithmetick. 
To MULTIPLY, v. a. [multiplier, Fr. multiplico, Lat.] 
To increafe in number; to make more by generation, ac¬ 
cumulation, or addition.—He clappeth his hands amongft: 
us, and multiplieth his words againft God. Job, xxxiv. 37. 
His birth to our juft fear gave no finall caufe; 
But his growth now to youth’s full flower, difplaying 
All virtue, grace, and wifdom, to achieve 
Things higheft, greateft, multiplies my fears. Milton. 
To perform the procefs of arithmetical multiplication.—■ 
From one ltock of feven hundred years, multiplying itill by 
twenty, we fhall find the produCt to be one thoufand three 
hundred forty-leven millions three hundred fixty-eight 
thoufand four hundred and twenty. Brown's Vulgar Err. 
To MULTIPLY, v.n. To grow in number.— The mul¬ 
tiplying brood of the ungodly fhall not thrive. WiJ'd. iv. 3. 
To increafe themfelves.—We fee the infinitely fruitful 
and productive power of this way of finning; how it can 
increafe and multiply beyond all bounds and meafures of 
aCtual commiflion. South's Sermons. 
The multiplying villanies of nature 
Do fwarm upon him. Shakefpeare's Macbeth. 
MULTIP'OTENT, adj. [multus and potens, Lat.] Hav¬ 
ing manifold power ; having power to do many different 
things : 
By Jove multipotent. 
Thou fhould’ft not bear from me a Greekifh member. 
Shakefpeare's Trail, and Crcjf. 
MULTIPRES'ENCE, f. [multus and preej'entia, Lat.] 
The power or aft of being prefent in more places than 
one at the fame time.—This fleevelefs tale of tranlubltan- 
tiation was furely brought into the world, and upon the 
ftage, by that other fable of the multiprefence of Chrift’s 
body. Bp. Hall. 
MULTIS'CIOUS, adj. [multijcius, Lat.] Having va¬ 
riety of knowledge. 
MULTISILI'QUFE, in botany, the tw'enty-fixth among 
the Natural Orders of Linnaeus, fo termed becaufe the 
fruit confifts of feveral aggregate feed-veffels, which have 
the appearance of pods. See the article Botany, vol. iii. 
p. 296. 
MULTISILIQ'UOUS, adj. The fame with corniculate; 
ufed of plants, whofe leed is-contained in many diftinCl 
feed-veffels. Bailey. 
MULTIS'ONOUS, adj. [from the Lat. multus, many, 
and J’onus, a found.] Having many founds. 
MULTISYL'LABLE, f [multus , Lat. and Syllable.] A 
polyfyllable ; a word of many fyllables.—Which is to be 
obierved, not only in the length of fentences, but of words; 
among which a multifyllable better anfwers a monofyllable 
precedent, than a monofyllable a multij'y liable. Infirulil.for 
Oratory, 1682. 
MULTITUDE, f. [from multitudo, Lat.] The ftate of 
being many ; the ftate of being more than'one.—Number 
collective ; a fum of many ; more than one.—It is impofll- 
ble that any multitude can be actually infinite, or fo great 
that there cannot be a greater. Hale. —A great number, 
loofely and indefinitely.—It is a fault in a multitude of 
preachers, that they utterly negleCt method in their ha¬ 
rangues. Watts. —A crowd or throng ; the vulgar.—-He 
the vaft hilling multitude admires. Addifon. 
MULTITUDINOUS, 
