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Webster 1913 Edition


Reduplicate

Re-du′pli-cate

(r?-d?′pl?-k?t)
,
Adj.
[Pref.
re-
+
duplicate
: cf. L.
reduplicatus
. Cf.
Redouble
.]
1.
Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.
2.
(Bot.)
Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; – said of the [GREEK]stivation of certain flowers.

Re-du′pli-cate

(-k?t)
,
Verb.
T.
[Cf. LL.
reduplicare
.]
1.
To redouble; to multiply; to repeat.
2.
(Gram.)
To repeat the first letter or letters of (a word). See
Reduplication
, 3.

Webster 1828 Edition


Reduplicate

REDU'PLICATE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. reduplico; re and duplico. See Duplicate.]
To double.