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Definition: FOL'IO

Part of SpeechDefinition
Verb1. To put a serial number on each folio or page of (a book); to page.[Websters]
2. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: fol'ioing, fol'ioed, fol'ios, fol'ioer, fol'ioers, fol'ioingly and fol'ioedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adjective1. Formed of sheets each folded once, making two leaves, or four pages; as, a folio volume.[Websters]
2. Virtually never used base adjective of the rarely used adverb fol'ioly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "FOL'IO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)