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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Obsolete forms of enlarge, enlargement.

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  • verb Archaic spelling of enlarge.

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Examples

  • There is also evidence that as local farm productivity declined, perhaps tbecaue of temps, but certainly inlarge aprt because of soil and browse degradation from erosion afer overgrazing, that they depended more on that source for meat; this is one part of that evidence.

    Predict future climate change! « Climate Audit 2006

  • Thus for want of further matter to inlarge, I ende for this time, beseeching God to preserue you in continuall health.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • France, and the transactions ther, with which he had bene so lately acquainted, that he could pertinently inlarge upon that subjecte, to the Kings greate delight, and to the reconcilinge the esteeme and valew of all the Standers by likewise to him, which was a thinge the Kinge was well pleased with: He acted very few weekes upon this

    Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

  • As well to a good maker and Poet as to an excellent perswader in prose, the figure of _Similitude_ is very necessary by which we not onely bewtifie our tale, but also very much inforce & inlarge it.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • [Sidenote: A worthie prince.] proued a right worthie prince, amending the lawes of the realme that were defectiue, abolishing euill customs and maners vsed amongst his people, and repairing old cities and townes which were decaied: but speciallie he delited most to beautifie and inlarge with buildings the

    Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8) Raphael Holinshed

  • I wish it were with you, that you might read it; for if you thought it unproportionable for the place where it is, I could be willingly diverted to make it a piece by itself, and inlarge it into the whole size of his life; and that way it would be sooner communicated to the world.

    Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

  • I wish it were with you that you might read it, for if you thought it unproportionable for the place where it is I could be willingly diverted to make it a piece by itself, and inlarge it into the whole size of his life; and that way it would sooner be communicated to the world.

    Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

  • Which store, neuerthelesse, doeth much beautifie and inlarge the matter.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • ¶ It is to be noted, that when king Henrie had conquered the most part of Ireland, and set the countrie in some good order, and after his comming from thence, such capteines as he left there behind him, were not idle, but still did what they could to inlarge the confines which were committed to their gouernance: [Sidenote: Hugh Lacies diligence to inlarge his possessions in Ireland.] but amongst them all this Hugh

    Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed

  • This is not the way to amplifie and inlarge your Empire, but rather to restraine and diminish the same.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

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