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▪ I. enˈlarging, vbl. n.
[f. enlarge v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of enlarge v. in its various senses.
1494Fabyan v. cxv. 89 He releuyd greatly the poore people, by enlargyng of his liberall almes. Ibid. vi. clxxxvii. 189 For the enlargynge of the Kyng. 1553Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 37 They fyght not for the enlargeing of theyr dominion. 1656More Antid. Ath. ii. ii. (1712) 41 The inlarging of our Understanding by so ample Experience. a1717Parnell To Ld. Bolingbroke Wks. (1810) 413 Where mean acrostics..control The great enlargings of the boundless soul. 1843Browning Blot 'Scutcheon i. iii, Thorold's enlargings, Austin's brevities.
attrib.1875Ure Dict. Arts II. 729 The hammer used for beating the first packet [of gold-leaf] is called the flat, or the enlarging hammer.
2. concr. An expansion, swelling.
1562Turner Herbal ii. 111 b, The herbe..healeth the enlarginges of wind or puls veynes.
▪ II. enlarging, ppl. a.|ɛnˈlɑːdʒɪŋ|
[f. enlarge v. + -ing2.]
That enlarges, in various senses.
Hence enˈlargingly, adv.
1694A. van Leeuwenhoek in Phil. Trans. XVIII. 196 A much more enlarging Microscope. 1746–7Hervey Medit. (1818) 177 Your deep, prolonged, enlarging, aggravated roar. 1762–9Falconer Shipwr. iii. 65 While round before the enlarging wind it falls. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. 87 So that this was an enlarging statute. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Lit. Wks. (Bohn) II. 109 With patriotic and still enlarging generosity. 1882J. Parker Apost. Life I. 19 The power was to be used enlargingly. |