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verb

Amplify v. t. (past & past part. amplified; pres. part. amplifying)

To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.

(Rhet.) To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of. "Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator."

Amplify v. i.

To become larger. (Obs.) "Strait was the way at first, withouten light, But further in did further amplify."

To speak largely or copiously; to be diffuse in argument or description; to dilate; to expatiate; often with on or upon. "He must often enlarge and amplify upon the subject he handles."

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... so natural and of such simplicity, that though a biased judgment may, perhaps, exaggerate their character, and amplify their importance, they will furnish to an impartial and reflective mind a wealth of evidence far superior to the vain speculations of the imagination or the ...

— The Private Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete • Constant

... in chemistry and in geology, by having traced the causes of the combinations of bodies to remoter origins, as well as those in astronomy, which dignify the present age, contribute to enlarge and amplify our ideas of the power of the Great First Cause. And had those ancient philosophers, who contended that the world was formed from atoms, ascribed their combinations to certain immutable properties received from the hand of the ...

— Zoonomia, Vol. I - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

... of scientists accepts from its predecessors a trust for the future. Not only must it preserve the body of knowledge, but it must verify, amplify and enrich it. This is as true of the social scientist as it is of the natural scientist. The difference between them is that the natural scientist has worked out his technique and established his field, while the social scientist has reached ...

— The Next Step - A Plan for Economic World Federation • Scott Nearing

... said Media, "that he is opulent; for his very simplicity, is sometimes of more account than the wisdom of the sage. But we were discoursing of the Tapparians. Babbalanja: sententiously you have acquitted yourself to admiration; now amplify, and tell us more of ...

— Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) • Herman Melville

... Perfection cannot be improved." All this is as true as it is pointedly expressed; but though true, it is nothing to the purpose—nay, bears as much against prayer as against poetry. What meant the Psalmist when he said, "My soul doth magnify the Lord?" Did he aspire to exalt Omnipotence or to amplify perfection? No; but only first to shew his own feeling of their magnitude; and, again, to raise himself a step toward an approximately adequate conception of the Most High. So in religious poetry. We cannot add to, ...

— Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham • Edmund Waller; John Denham

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