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/mˈænəfˌoʊld/ /mˈænɪfˌoʊld/ Listen

noun

Manifold n.

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 engine.

3.

pl. The third stomach of a ruminant animal. (Local, U.S.)

adjective

Manifold adj.

1.

Various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous; multiplied; complicated. "O Lord, how manifold are thy works!" "I know your manifold transgressions."

2.

Exhibited at divers times or in various ways; used to qualify nouns in the singular number. "The manifold wisdom of God." "The manifold grace of God."

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.

verb

Manifold v. t. (past & past part. manifolded; pres. part. manifolding) To take copies of by the process of manifold writing; as, to manifold a letter.

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Etymology of 'Manifold'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Manifold" Quotes from Famous Books

... upon the path we have trodden, with its continual fight against disease, its manifold combats with obstacles of life, and with its inevitable portion of sorrow we all must bear, we should think seriously and consider the result of our act before we deliberately bring another ...

— Tyranny of God • Joseph Lewis

... true of the affront which he is said to have offered to Mrs Beaumont, the great lady had manifold ...

— The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope v. I. • A. M. W. Stirling (compiler)

... Peter said: 'Lo, we have left all and followed thee.' And he said unto them,—'Verily I say unto you, there is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake, who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come ...

— Christian Devotedness • Anthony Norris Groves

... one resource, however, and I am not sure that a similar stronghold has not secured the power of greater men and in higher functions. Peter's sway was of so varied and complicated a kind; the duties he discharged were so various, manifold, and conflicting; the measures he took with the people, whose destinies were committed to him, were so thoroughly devised, by reference to the peculiar condition of each man—what he could do, or bear, or submit to—and not by any sense of justice; that a sort of government ...

— Lord Kilgobbin • Charles Lever

... strong, strange, wild life, that breathed with his in the darkness through this hour. It was all so much bigger than themselves that he was hushed. They had met, and included in their meeting the thrust of the manifold grass stems, the cry of the peewit, ...

— Sons and Lovers • David Herbert Lawrence

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