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Definition of Eightfold
1. Adjective. Having eight units or components.
Definition of Eightfold
1. a. Eight times a quantity.
Definition of Eightfold
1. Adjective. Eight times as much; multiplied by eight. ¹
2. Adjective. Containing eight parts. ¹
3. Adverb. Eight times as much. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Eightfold
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eightfold
Literary usage of Eightfold
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Buddhist Legends by Buddhaghoṣa (1921)
"The Noble Truth regarding the Way to the Cessation of Suffering is this: It is
the Noble eightfold Path. § 2 e. The Noble eightfold Path to ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"... from four- to fivefold; the very fertile Plain of Sharon, carefully cultivated
by German colonists, eightfold for wheat and fifteenfold for barley. ..."
3. The Essence of Buddhism by Pokala Lakshmi Narasu (1907)
"It is the Noble eightfold Path." No man can truly call himself a Buddhist, if he
has not entered the Noble eightfold Path. Mere study and investigation of ..."
4. Buddhism: Its History and Literature by Thomas William Rhys Davids (1896)
"... which leads to peace of mind, to the higher wisdom, to full enlightenment, to
Nirvana. " And which is that Middle Way ? Verily it is the Noble eightfold ..."
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