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Word Meanings - AMPLIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Dryden. (more info)

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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. Dryden. (more info) 1. To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.

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  • ANNEX
    to; ad + nectere to tie, to fasten together, akin to Skr. nah to 1. To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to. "He annexed a codicil to a will." Johnson. 2. To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater. He
  • STRAINABLE
    1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
  • DISSERTATIONAL
    Relating to dissertations; resembling a dissertation.
  • CLEARLY
    In a clear manner.
  • ELIMINATE
    To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth. 4.
  • DISSERTATE
    To deal in dissertation; to write dissertations; to discourse. J. Foster.
  • CLEARER
    A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
  • ENLARGEMENT
    1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
  • UNFOLDER
    One who, or that which, unfolds.
  • STRAINING
    from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
  • DEVELOPMENT
    The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another
  • ADDUCE
    To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege. Reasons . . . were adduced on both sides. Macaulay. Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.
  • EXTENDLESSNESS
    Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
  • ANNEXATION
    1. The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold. The union of property with a freehold so as to become a fixture.
  • CLEAR-HEADED
    Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear-headed." Macaulay. -- Clear"-head`ed*ness, n.
  • OVERPAINT
    To color or describe too strongly. Sir W. Raleigh.
  • UNFOLDMENT
    The acct of unfolding, or the state of being unfolded. The extreme unfoldment of the instinctive powers. C. Morris.
  • EXTENDANT
    Displaced. Ogilvie.
  • SWELLTOAD
    A swellfish.
  • CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
    Acute discernment.
  • DENUNCIATE
    To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke.
  • REINCREASE
    To increase again.
  • INDWELLING
    Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South.
  • SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
    The tenets of the Sadducees.
  • RESTRAINABLE
    Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
  • SEDUCEMENT
    1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope.
  • REDUCEMENT
    Reduction. Milton.
  • UPSWELL
    To swell or rise up.
  • DISTRAINER
    See DISTRAINOR
  • HALF-STRAINED
    Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
  • POLYNUCLEAR
    Containing many nuclei.
  • SEDUCER
    One who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions. He whose firm faith no reason could remove, Will melt before that soft seducer, love. Dryden.

 

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