Obs. [a. L. quadruplātor, (1) a public informer, (2) one who multiplies by four (see prec.). The exact origin of sense 1 is not certain, though there is probably some connection with quadruplum a fourfold penalty.] a. A public informer. b. One who restores fourfold.
1624. Sanderson, Serm., I. 109. Our prouling informers, like those old sycophants in Athens, or the quadruplators in Rome. Ibid., 114. Zacheus … imposed upon himself … a fourfold restitution…. Here was a right quadruplator indeed; and in the best sence.
1647. Trapp, Comm. Matt. viii. 32. A cunning fetch of an old quadruplator.
So † Quadruplation, multiplying by four. Obs.
1557. Recorde, Whetst., N n iv b. That must be doen by that quadriplation as you taught before.
1658. in Phillips.
