Duplicative
(Du"pli*ca*tive) a.
1. Having the quality of duplicating or doubling.
2. (Biol.) Having the quality of subdividing into two by natural growth. "Duplicative subdivision." Carpenter.
Duplicature
(Du"pli*ca*ture) n. [Cf. F. duplicature.] A doubling; a fold, as of a membrane.
Duplicity
(Du*plic"i*ty) n.; pl. Duplicities [F. duplicité, L. duplicitas, fr. duplex double. See Duplex.]
1. Doubleness; a twofold state. [Archaic]
Do not affect duplicities nor triplicities, nor any certain number of parts in your division of things.
I. Watts. 2. Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists in entertaining
or pretending to entertain one set of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad faith.
Far from the duplicity wickedly charged on him, he acted his part with alacrity and resolution.
Burke.
3. (Law) (a) The use of two or more distinct allegations or answers, where one is sufficient. Blackstone.
(b) In indictments, the union of two incompatible offenses. Wharton.
Syn. — Double dealing; dissimulation; deceit; guile; deception; falsehood.
Dupper
(Dup"per) n. See 2d Dubber.
Dur
(||Dur) a. [G., fr. L. durus hard, firm, vigorous.] (Mus.) Major; in the major mode; as, C dur, that
is, C major.
Dura
(||Du"ra) n. Short form for Dura mater.
Durability
(Du`ra*bil"i*ty), n. [L. durabilitas.] The state or quality of being durable; the power of uninterrupted
or long continuance in any condition; the power of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause
changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness.
A Gothic cathedral raises ideas of grandeur in our minds by the size, its height, . . . its antiquity, and its
durability.
Blair. Durable
(Du"ra*ble) a. [L. durabilis, fr. durare to last: cf. F. durable. See Dure.] Able to endure
or continue in a particular condition; lasting; not perishable or changeable; not wearing out or decaying
soon; enduring; as, durable cloth; durable happiness.
Riches and honor are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
Prov. viii. 18.
An interest which from its object and grounds must be so durable.
De Quincey. Syn. — Lasting; permanent; enduring; firm; stable; continuing; constant; persistent. See Lasting.
Durableness
(Du"ra*ble*ness), n. Power of lasting, enduring, or resisting; durability.
The durableness of the metal that supports it.
Addison. Durably
(Du"ra*bly), adv. In a lasting manner; with long continuance.
Dural
(Du"ral) a. (Anat.) Pertaining to the dura, or dura mater.
