Search the Dictionary

e larger. [Obs.] Strait was the way at first, withouten light, But further in did further amplify. Fairfax.

A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or adjuncts of "History."

To amplify. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act of amplifying or enlarging in dimensions; enlargement; extension.

Serving to amplify or enlarge; amplificative. Morell.

Pertaining to, or containing, auxesis; amplifying.

es somewhat to be understood. B. Jonson. Where the author is . . . too brief and concise, amplify a little. I. Watts.

To amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth ; to delineate extravagantly ; to overstate the truth concerning. A friend exaggerates a man's virtues. Addison.

To enlarge, as a surface or volume; to expand; to spread; to amplify; as, to extend metal plates by hammering or rolling them.

A suffix signifying to make, to form into, etc.; as, acetify, amplify, dandify, Frenchify, etc.

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.

A figure by which synonymous words are used to amplify a discourse.