a. Obs. rare–1. [f. L. tantus so great, after QUADRUPLE, etc.] That is so many times another quantity; equimultiple.
1656. Hobbes, Six Lessons, iii. Wks. 1845, VII. 240. It was to be expected I should define geometrical proportions to be then the same, when the antecedents are of their consequents totuple or tantuple, that is, equimultiple (for tantuplum signifies nothing).
