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† enˈgreaten, v. Obs.
[f. en-1 + great a. + -en5.]
trans. To make great; to increase, aggrandize; also fig. to aggravate (an offence). Hence enˈgreatening vbl. n.
c1614Cornwallyes in Gutch Coll. Cur. I. 156 The late working of these conjunctions between them, to the engreatning of them, and peril of us. 1641Relation Answ. Earl Strafford 4 He had engreatned and advanced the Kings Revenues. 1681Nevile Plato Rediv. 186 To engreaten the King against the Interest and Liberty of their own Country. 1684Contempl. State Man. ii. x. (1699) 238 Sin is..much engreatned by the circumstances which attend it. |