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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Reduplicate

Re-dû'pli-cāte, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [Prefix re and duplicate; Lat. reduplicare, Sp. reduplicar, It. reduplicare, raddoppiare. Cf. REDOUBLE.]

  1. To redouble; to multiply; to repeat.
  2. (Gram.) To repeat the first letter or letters of.

Re-dū'pli-cate, a.

adjective

a. [Lat. reduplicatus, p. p. of reduplicare. See supra.]

  1. Double; doubled; reduplicative.
  2. (Bot.) Characterized, in estivation, by a variation of the valvate form in which the margins of the leaves project outward, instead of inward. Gray.