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ampliation arch.|æmplɪˈeɪʃən|
Also 6 -iacion, -yacion.
[a. Fr. ampliation, ad. L. ampliātiōn-em, n. of action f. ampliā-re: see ampliate v.]
1. Enlarging, extending, amplification.
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. viii. xi, Wyth amplyacion more connyng to get, By the laboure of inventyfe busynes. 1630Lord Banians 86 Meditating unjust ampliations of government. 1671Grew Anat. Plants i. iv. §19 (1682) 33 The due spreading and ampliation of a Tree or other Plant. 1726Ayliffe Parerg. 157 Odious Matters admit not of an Ampliation, but ought to be..interpreted in the mildest sense. a1857Sir W. Hamilton Logic (1866) II. App. 273 This quantity [Extension] alone admits of ampliation or restriction.
2. That which is added in the process of enlarging; an enlargement or extension.
1590Swinburn Testaments 191 b, Which conclusion is accompanied with no smal traine of ampliations & limitations. 1624Bedell Lett. iii. 71 A long compasse of a sentence..with I know not how many ampliations and alternatiues. 1671Grew Anat. Plants i. iv. (1682) 29 The Skin of the Leaf, is only the ampliation of that of the Branch.
3. Law. Deferring of judgement till a case has been more fully examined.
1656Blount Glossogr., Ampliation, a deferring or prolonging of Judgment or Trial, till the Cause be better certified. a1661B. Holyday Juvenal (1673) 244 Which delay of the cause was called ampliation. 1708Motteux Rabelais iv. xxvii, [The Judges of the Areopagus] signifying..by A. Ampliation or a Demur, when the Case was not sufficiently examined. 1809Tomlins Law Dict., Ampliation..in law a referring of judgment, till the cause is further examined. |