Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To make greater or more ample; enlarge; extend.
- Enlarged; dilated; in logic, enlarged in scope by a modifying term. See ampliation, ampliative.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. rare To enlarge.
- adj. (Zoöl.) Having the outer edge prominent; said of the wings of insects.
Examples
“Just as the past tense ampliates the subject to include past as well as present supposita, modal verbs ampliate the subject to possible supposita, as do verbs such as ‘I understand’, ‘I believe’, and indeed, notes Albert of Saxony, verbal nouns ending in ‘-bile’: ‘possible’, ‘audible’, ‘credible’, ‘capable of laughter’ and so on.”
“Similarly, ‘must’ ampliates for possible supposita, for ‘A must be B’ means ‘It is not possible that A not be B’; but contradictories must clearly ampliate in the same way, and ‘It is possible that A not be B’ ampliates for possibilia.”
“The freshest specimens have the griseous margin of the elytra, which parts from the base under the shoulder, obliquely and angularly ampliate interiorly towards the middle, where it reaches the second stria.”
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
“Some others would ampliate and enrich their native tongue with more vocables, which also I commend, if it be aptly and wittily assayed.”
“And shall only take notice of such whose experimental and judicious knowledge shall be employed, not to traduce or extenuate, but to explain and dilucidate, to add and ampliate, according to the laudable custom of the ancients in their sober promotions of learning.”
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verbs
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spread out, spacious words of spe
words pertaining to the root spe- (hope) with some allegorical liberties.
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