different between sevenfold vs heptadic

English

Etymology

From Middle English sevenefold, from Old English seofonfeald. Equivalent to seven +? -fold.

Adjective

sevenfold (not comparable)

1. Seven times as much; multiplied by seven.

   • “I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
2. Having seven parts; composed of seven items.
   • 1908, Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (transl.), The Seven Against Thebes in Four Plays of Aeschylus, page 120.

     Come down to the sevenfold gates and harry the foemen away!

Related terms

• seven
• seventh

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Adverb

sevenfold (not comparable)

1. By a factor of seven.

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References

• sevenfold in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• sevenfold in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Middle English

Adjective

sevenfold

1. Alternative form of sevenefold

Adverb

sevenfold

1. Alternative form of sevenefold

English

Etymology

heptad +? -ic

Adjective

heptadic

1. of, or relating to a heptad; sevenfold

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