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To magnify or extol. [Obs.] Marston.

The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration. [R.]

The act of doing what magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent. Acts xix. 27. "Then cometh magnificence." Chaucer. And, for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak The Maker's high magnificence, who built so spacious. Milton. The noblest monuments of Roman magnificence. Eustace.

or opulence, especially in building, way of living, and munificence. A prince is never so magnificent As when he's sparing to enrich a few With the injuries of many. Massinger.

In a Magnificent manner.

A grandee or nobleman of Venice; -- so called in courtesy. Shak.

One who, or that which, magnifies.

To make great, or greater; to increase the dimensions of; to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the object by a thousand diameters. The least error in a small quantity . . . will in a great one . . . be proportionately magnified. Grew.

The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.

eaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent. -- Mag*nil"o*quent*ly, adv.

Magniloquent. [Obs.]

ies to be so disposed amongst themselves, that the intervals of empty spaces between them may be equal in magnitude to them all. Sir I. Newton.

A genus of American and Asiatic trees, with aromatic bark and large sweet-scented whitish or reddish flowers.

Pertaining to a natural order (Magnoliaceæ) of trees of which the magnolia, the tulip tree, and the star anise are examples.

A large wine bottle. They passed the magnum to one another freely. Sir W. Scott .

The Barbary ape.

A magpie. [Obs.] Shak.

Any one of numerous species of the genus Pica and related genera, allied to the jays, but having a long graduated tail.

A South American stork (Euxenara maguari), having a forked tail.

The century plant, a species of Agave (A. Americana). See Agave.