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Webster 1913 Edition
Manifold
1.
Various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous; multiplied; complicated.
O Lord, how
manifold
are thy works! Ps. civ. 24.
I know your
manifold
transgressions. Amos v. 12.
2.
Exhibited at divers times or in various ways; – used to qualify nouns in the singular number.
“The manifold wisdom of God.” Eph. iii. 10.
“The manifold grace of God.” 1 Pet. iv. 10.
Manifold writing
, a process or method by which several copies, as of a letter, are simultaneously made, sheets of coloring paper being infolded with thin sheets of plain paper upon which the marks made by a stylus or a type-writer are transferred; writing several copies of a document at once by use of carbon paper or the like.
Man′i-fold
,Noun.
1.
A copy of a writing made by the manifold process.
2.
(Mech.)
A cylindrical pipe fitting, having a number of lateral outlets, for connecting one pipe with several others;
as, the exhaust
. manifold
of an automobile engine3.
pl.
The third stomach of a ruminant animal.
[Local, U.S.]
Man′i-fold
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Manifolded
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Manifolding
.] To take copies of by the process of manifold writing;
as, to
. manifold
a letterWebster 1828 Edition
Manifold
MAN'IFOLD
,Adj.
O Lord, how manifold are thy works! Ps.104.
I know your manifold transgressions. Amos.5.
1.
Exhibited or appearing at divers times or in various ways; applied to words in the singular number; as the manifold wisdom of God, or his manifold grace. Eph.3. 1 Pet.4.