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Enlarge vs Amplificatory - What's the difference?

enlarge | amplificatory |

As a verb enlarge

is to make larger.

As an adjective amplificatory is

serving to amplify or enlarge; amplificative.

enlarge

English

Verb

(enlarg)
  • To make larger.
  • To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc.
    • Knowledge enlarges the mind.
  • * Bible, 2 Corinthians vi. 11
    • O ye Corinthians, our heart is enlarged .
  • To speak at length upon'' or ''on (some subject)
  • * 1664 , (Samuel Butler), Hudibras 2.2.68:
    • I shall enlarge upon the Point.
  • (archaic) To release; to set at large.
  • * 1580 , (Philip Sidney), Arcadia 329:
    • Like a Lionesse lately enlarged .
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:
    • Finding no meanes how I might us enlarge , / But if that Dwarfe I could with me convay, / I lightly snatcht him up and with me bore away.
  • * Barrow
    • It will enlarge us from all restraints.
  • * 1599 , (William Shakespeare), Henry V , Act II Scene II:
    • Uncle of Exeter, enlarge the man committed yesterday, that rail'd against our person. We consider it was excess of wine that set him on.
  • (nautical) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.
  • (legal) To extend the time allowed for compliance with (an order or rule).
    • (Abbott)

    Related terms

    * magnify * supersize

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    amplificatory

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Serving to amplify or enlarge; amplificative.
  • * John Daniel Morell, An Historical and Critical View of the Speculative Philosophy of Europe in the Nineteenth Century
    • the latter expresses something respecting the former which, instead of being a mere analysis of its meaning, indicates an actual increase of our knowledge concerning it, on which account such judgments were termed by Kant amplificatory , as adding something to our former ideas on the question.