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/ɛnlˈɑrdʒd/ /ɪnlˈɑrdʒd/ Listen

verb

Enlarge v. t. (past & past part. enlarged; pres. part. enlarging)

1.

To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house. "To enlarge their possessions of land."

2.

To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, and the like; as, knowledge enlarges the mind. "O ye Corinthians, our... heart is enlarged."

3.

To set at large or set free. (Archaic) "It will enlarge us from all restraints."

Enlarging hammer, a hammer with a slightly rounded face of large diameter; used by gold beaters.

To enlarge an order or To enlarge a rule (Law), to extend the time for complying with it.

To enlarge one's self, to give free vent to speech; to spread out discourse. "They enlarged themselves on this subject."

To enlarge the heart, to make free, liberal, and charitable.

Synonyms: To increase; extend; expand; spread; amplify; augment; magnify. See Increase.

Enlarge v. i.

1.

To grow large or larger; to be further extended; to expand; as, a plant enlarges by growth; an estate enlarges by good management; a volume of air enlarges by rarefaction.

2.

To speak or write at length; to be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to dilate. "To enlarge upon this theme."

3.

(Naut.) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.

adjective

Enlarged adj. Made large or larger; extended; swollen.

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Etymology of 'Enlarged'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Enlarged" Quotes from Famous Books

... shall leave you now, gentlemen, to your deliberations. I should like to have enlarged on the services rendered by the Liberal Party to the religious faith of the great majority of the people of Ireland; but I shall content myself with saying that in my opinion you should choose ...

— John Bull's Other Island • George Bernard Shaw

... vast extent of dominions left her by her husband, she enlarged them by the conquest of a great part of AEthiopia. Whilst she was in that country, she had the curiosity to visit the temple of Jupiter Ammon, to inquire of the oracle how long she had to live. According to Diodorus, the answer she received was, that she should not ...

— The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, • Charles Rollin

... while the scientific temper of the present day could not fail to affect our thoughts concerning prayer in some directions, the same has surely to be said about the ethical temper of the age, as shown in our enlarged conceptions of God. To put it bluntly, much of the language about what used to be called "special providences" has become unreal and ceased to be edifying for us. On this whole subject some words of Principal Adeney's can ...

— Problems of Immanence - Studies Critical and Constructive • J. Warschauer

... us to do certain things. 'I know nothing against myself,' said the Apostle, 'yet am I not hereby justified.' And again, still more emphatically, he lays down the principle that I would have liked to have enlarged upon if I had had time. 'Happy is he that condemneth not himself in the things which he alloweth.' You may have made the glove too easy by stretching. It is possible that you may think that something ...

— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren

... germs of the higher heroic poetry. The ballad, the short stories, the favourite anecdotes of remarkable men at their exploits, have the luck to fall, later, into the hands of a skilful reciter or verse-maker; they are enlarged, knit together, and fashioned according to the ideas of the day, with an infusion of rhetoric and literary decoration. The heroic ideal, to use Professor Ker's words, is thus worked up out of the ...

— Studies in Literature and History • Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall

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