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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Quadruply, -plie, -pley, v. [Med. L. quadriplicare (L. quadruplicāre to quadruple): cf. Duply, Reply, Triply.] intr. and tr. To make a second rejoinder in a legal process (see Quadruply n.).c1630 Hope Minor Pract. (1734) 30.
The answer that the pursuer makes to the exception, is called a reply … and so forward, the pursuer and defender mutually answers, replies, duplies, triplies, quadruplies, etc.
1504 Stirling Chart. 68 (see Duply v. 2 a).1509 Ib. 74 (see Duply v. 2 a).1518 Lag Chart. 54.
Quadruplie
1624 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV 249.
To the quhilk it was quadruplyit … for the pairt of the said defender that the wordis … ar not [etc.]
1629 Justiciary Cases I 100. 1663 Justiciary Ct. Rec. I 77.
Triplys Maxwell for the pursuer … Quadruplyes Birnie for the pannells
1673 Lauder Notices Affairs I 78.
Wheirunto it was quadruplied for the defenders, in so far as concerned the point of interest, and duplyed as to the several grounds of the declarator
1687 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser XIII 174.
To which it wes quadruplyed for the persewar that he adheires to the former answers, and that [etc.]

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