释义 |
micrify, v.|ˈmaɪkrɪfaɪ| [Irregularly f. Gr. µῑκρό-ς small, after magnify.] trans. To make small; to render insignificant.
1836Emerson Nature 67 This power which he [the poet] exerts..to magnify the small, to micrify the great. 1862Tyndall Mountaineer. viii. 71, I should look less cheerily into the future did I not hope to micrify, by nobler work, my episodes upon the glaciers. |