ten-thousandfold en · ADJ
Etymology
From ten thousand + -fold.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Multiplied by ten thousand.
For both reasons taken together—his outstanding merit and his ten-thousandfold poverty—he deserves to have his meals in the prytaneion.
a. 1974, Leo Strauss, “On Plato’s Apology of Socrates and Crito”, in Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy, Chicago, Ill.; London: The University of Chicago Press, published 1983, →ISBN, page 49:The outburst of novæ cannot be explained in this manner, as some have suggested, for it could not possibly produce a ten-thousandfold increase in light; […]
1920 March 4, A[ndrew] C[laude] D[e la Cherois] Crommelin, “The Einstein Deflection of Light”, in Nature: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science, volume CV, number 2627, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited; New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →ISSN, page 24, column 1:Comparing the C_(Ag⁺) in this case with that of Example 1, where no excess of the NH₃ was present, we find that the value has decreased from 5.5 × 10⁻⁴ to 6.8 × 10⁻⁸, a ten-thousandfold decrease.
1942, Carl J[ohn] Engelder, “[Complex-Ion Equilibria] Calculations Involving Complex Ions”, in Calculations of Qualitative Analysis, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman & Hall, Limited, published January 1947, →OCLC, pages 105–106:It is to be noted that the results agree with the simple relation given by Eq. (1) for as much as a ten-thousandfold change in δ_F.
1950 May 8, Merril F[rancis] Distad, “Equilibrium Currents Induced in Zincblende by Electron Bombardment of Negative Electrode”, in The Physical Review, second series, volume 80, number 5, published 1 December 1950, →ISSN, section IV (Equilibrium Bombardment Yield), page 883, column 1:
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(not-comparable) Having ten thousand parts or members.
How is it, then, that with the first class of receiver, the eye, we are enabled, unless indeed we be colour-blind, to see all the beautiful and glorious varieties of nature in its ten-thousandfold hues; while the other receiver, the photographic plate, gives us but black and white?
1878 January, J[oseph] Norman Lockyer, “Ears and Eyes”, in Macmillan’s Magazine, volume XXXVII, number 219, London: Macmillan and Co. […], →OCLC, page 207, column 2:The ten-thousandfold law of punishment is rigorously enforced against every creature, man included.
1906 June 23, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “[Reflections on Religion] Four”, in Ray Fabrizio, Edith Karas, Ruth Menmuir, compilers, The Rhetoric of No, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., published 1970, →ISBN, section “The Impassioned NO”, page 18:According to the Atthasālinī, the commentary to the Dhammasaṅgaṇī, the Buddha preached the Abhidhamma in the Tāvatiṁsa heaven—the heaven of the Thirty-three—to the devas who had gathered from the ten-thousandfold world-system; […]
1966, Nyanaponika Thera, “[The Turner of the Wheel] The Abhidhamma”, in Nyanaponika Thera, Hellmuth Hecker, edited by Bhikkhu Bodhi, Great Disciples of the Buddha: Their Lives, Their Works, Their Legacy, Boston, Mass.: Wisdom Publications; Kandy, Central Province: Buddhist Publication Society, published 1997, →ISBN, chapter 1 (Sāriputta: The Marshal of the Dhamma), page 45:The night was full of roaring, like the ten-thousandfold throat of the stadium.
1988 April, Tanith Lee, “The Fire Ride”, in The White Serpent (A Novel of Vis, 3; DAW Book Collectors No. 740), New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, Inc., →ISBN, book 2 (Alisaar—Part One), page 78:In the case of the ten-thousandfold contract of the Mazdayasnian Religion the contracting parties can safely be held to be the Religion on the one hand, and each of the faithful on the other.
1959, Ilya Gershevitch, “Commentary”, in The Avestan Hymn to Mithra (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications; 4), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, section 117¹, page 268:
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