Decuply

Blessed be Cadmus, author of letters, and decuply blessed be Faustus, father of type!

A commodity almost scarcer than any other, and rendered doubly, quadruply, nay decuply scarce by the bare fact that, being the principal currency abroad, as well as at home, the whole world are scrambling with one another to obtain it, and competitors against us in every market for securing the first and largest supplies of it?

But is it true that no parliamentary cure is findable for the disease? that the evil is one beyond the reach of legislative control? that, after all, the boasted “omnipotence of parliament” (which, Blackstone tells us, can do anything and everything not naturally impossible)—is it true, that this boasted omnipotence cannot secure for an Englishman the food he has raised,—the bread he has earned,—nay, doubly, trebly, quintuply, decuply earned?

If the particular spirit addressed is not present—(they cannot be evoked, but they are generally present when invoked by the call of sympathy and affection)—you are told so by some other spirit, whose communication shows his full cognisance of the contents of your quadruply or decuply folded inquiry.

After all, as chief of the secret police and lover of the Empress he alone—I shall tell him—is doubly, or is it decuply, paid for that purpose.

Individual subunits, if no distinction is made between α and β, lie on a triply threaded, left-handed screw (n = −3) and a decuply threaded, right-handed screw (n = 10).

“Actually, since there are five of us, it should be quintuply amazing already,” Liam said, smirking at me as if he realized something that would make himself giddy and me annoyed. “If we double that, then it has to be decuply amazing.”