SESQUIP'LICATE, adjective [Latin sesqui, one and a half, and plicatus, plico, to fold.] Designating the ratio of one and a half to one; as the sesquiplicate proportion of the periodical times of the planets.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.