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enlargement|ɛnˈlɑːdʒmənt|
Also 6–8 inlargement.
[f. enlarge v. + -ment.]
The action of enlarging; the state of being enlarged.
1. a. Increase in extent, capacity, magnitude, or amount: an instance of such increase.
1564Haward Eutropius vi. 53 He gave the Daphnenses a percell of lande for the enlargemente of theyr groves or copyes. 1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. iii. xi, The enlargment or abridgement of functions ministeriall. 1664Evelyn Sylva (1679) 4 The repetition of graffing, for the inlargement and melioration of fruit. 1736Butler Anal. i. 18 The vast enlargement of their locomotive powers. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt (1868) 46 An enlargement of the chapel..absorbed all extra funds and left none for the enlargement of the minister's income. 1875H. Wood Therap. (1879) 330 Malarial enlargements of the spleen.
b. concr. Something added so as to enlarge.
a1691Boyle Wks. I. 587 (R.) Divers notes..to be inserted here and there, as inlargements in the next edition.
c. Photogr. The process of enlarging a picture; a negative or print made of a larger size than the original.
1866J. Towler Negative & Print xiv. 129 (heading) The solar camera and solar enlargements. 1871English Mechanic 17 Mar. 621/2 The inner body of large camera for enlargement. 1878Abney Treat. Photogr. xxix. 209 It can also be shown that an enlargement from a small negative is better than a picture of the same size taken direct as regards sharpness of detail. 1884― Instr. Photogr. (ed. 6) 188 Enlarged negatives can be produced either by making an enlarged transparency, or by enlarging the negative from it in the camera. In all cases of enlargement the camera must be employed. 1903A. Watkins Photogr. (ed. 2) 47 The five separate influences which decide an enlargement exposure. 1919C. C. Turner Struggle in Air xv. 203 Often enlargements of these photographs revealed important changes undetected by the naked eye.
†2. Diffusion, propagation. Obs. Cf. enlarge 3 a.
1607Hieron Wks. I. 247 We haue not laboured the inlargement of Gods truth. 1644Milton Educ. (1738) 135 A great furtherance to the enlargement of a truth.
3. The widening or expanding of the mind, of a person's thoughts, sympathies, or affections; the quality of being ‘enlarged’ in mind, thought, etc.
1806A. Knox Rem. (1844) I. 96 His own enlargement of mind may raise him above..Judaism. 1847Emerson Repr. Men, Swedenborg Wks. (Bohn) I. 331 His judgments are those of a Swedish polemic, and his vast enlargements purchased by adamantine limitations. a1862Buckle Civiliz. (1873) III. iii. 182 It prepared them for a certain enlargement of mind, which is the natural consequence of seeing affairs under various aspects.
4. Copious discourse or expatiation on a subject; also, verbal amplification. arch.
1659O. Walker Instr. Art Oratory 95 Doubled Sentences and enlargements by Synonymal Words..are but necessary. 1669Bunyan Holy Citie 5 You must not from me look for much inlargement. 1683Burnet tr. More's Utopia (1684) 97 The old Men take occasion to entertain those about them, with some useful and pleasant Enlargements. 1741Warburton Div. Legat. II. 162 The Subject little needs Enlargement. 1747Gould Eng. Ants Ded., I shall therefore forbear those usual Enlargements. a1765Mallet To Dk. Marlb. (R.), I restrain my pen from all enlargement.
5. a. Release from confinement or bondage.
1540Act 32 Hen. VIII, c. 2 §9 After his enlargement and commyng out of pryson. 1611Bible Esther iv. 14 Then shall there enlargement and deliuerance arise to the Jewes from another place. 1709Stanhope Paraphr. IV. 250 That Enlargement from the Slavery of Lusts and vicious Habits. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1862) I. ii. 157 The enclosed animal..by repeated efforts, at last procures its enlargement. 1875‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Sports i. ii. ii. §1. 153 The enlargement of the deer. 1883Trevelyan in Daily News 24 Feb. 2/7 The enlargement from prison of Mr. Parnell.
†b. Freedom of action; concr. a right of free action, a privilege. Obs.
1611Shakes. Cymb. ii. iii. 125 Yet you are curb'd from that enlargement, by The consequence o' th' Crown. 1646J. Whitaker Uzziah 3 The enlargements bestowed upon this person. 1648Milton Observ. Art. Peace (1851) 556 Such freedoms and enlargements, as none of their Ancestors could ever merit.
c. In religious use: Conscious ‘liberty’, absence of constraint, in prayer, etc. arch.
1648Th. Hill The Strength of the Saints 19 Ministers find they have preached such a Sermon in such a place with very much enlargement. a1733D. Wilcox in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. xxvii. 4 What entertainments I have had! what enlargements in prayer, and answers thereto! 1739J. Trapp Serm. Righteousn. over-m. (1758) 61 They talk much of..their enlargements in devotion. 1766Wesley Jrnl. 31 July, I preached with great enlargement of heart. 1870Anderson Missions Amer. Bd. II. xviii. 147 Church members had wonderful enlargement and assistance in prayer. |