magnify

Definition

To praise, glorify (someone or something, especially God).

Etymology

From Middle English magnifien, from Middle French magnifier, from Latin magnificāre, from magnificus.

Example Sentences

• "For they herde them speake with tonges, and magnify God."
• "For he who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, and fears not to declare as freely what might be done better, gives ye the best cov'nant of his fidelity […]"
• "Having already described him [the whale] in most of his present habitatory and anatomical peculiarities, it now remains to magnify him in an archæological, fossiliferous, and antediluvian point of view."