GREATEN

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To make great; to aggrandize; to cause to increase in size; to expand. [R.] A minister's [business] is to greaten and exalt [his king]. Ken.

2.
v.

To become large; to dilate. [R.] My blue eyes greatening in the looking-glass. Mrs. Browning.


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