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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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DUPLY, n. and v. [du′plaɪ]

1. n. Sc. law: a second reply, i.e. the defender's rejoinder to the pursuer's reply, the third rejoinder made after the original assertion in any controversy. Gen. used in pl. Obs. exc. hist.Sc. 1748 Rec. Conv. Burghs (1915) 257:
Answers made thereto for the inhabitants of Kirkwall in way of duply.Sc. 1820 Scott Abbot i.:
Answers, replies, duplies, triplies, quadruplies, followed thick upon each other.ne.Sc. 1714 R. Smith Poems 94:
July, Glenshee, the fourteenth day, I got the Reply and gave Duply.Rnf. 1727 W. Hector Judicial Rec. (1876–78) I. 132:
Having considered the complaint, answers, replys, duplys or representation and answer thereto.

2. v. To make a duply.Sc. 1700 Process against Egyptians in S.C. Misc. (1846) III. 177:
Duplyed by Fraser, that the first pairt of the reply . . . is so trifling that it deserves no answer.Sc. 1710 Morison Decisions 2846–7:
Answered for Hamilton; Replied for Erskine; Duplied for Hamilton; Triplied for Erskine.Sc. 1818 Scott H. Midlothian xii.:
Advocatus for Lackland duplies that . . . the pursuer put his case under the statute.em.Sc. 2000 James Robertson The Fanatic 265:
He was in his element as he replied to an argument of Eleis, as Lockhart duplied to him, as he returned a further argument, and so forth: the lawyers were like mechanics working expertly on an apparatus no one else understood.