aggrandizev.

Brit.

/əˈɡrandʌɪz/, U.S.

/əˈɡrænˌdaɪz/

Forms: 1600s agrandise, 1600s agrandize, 1600s– aggrandise, 1600s– aggrandize.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French agrandiss-, aggrandiss-, agrandir, aggrandir.

Etymology: < French agrandiss-, †aggrandiss-, extended stem (compare -ish suffix²) of agrandir, †aggrandir to make (a person or thing) greater or larger (first quarter of the 13th cent. in Old French), to become greater (second quarter of the 13th cent.; < a- a- prefix⁵ + grand grand adj.), with subsequent remodelling of the ending after verbs in -ize suffix. Compare Italian aggrandire, †agrandire (a1292). N.E.D. (1884) gives the pronunciation as (æ·græ̆ndəiz) /ˈæɡrændaɪz/. Early editions of D. Jones Eng. Pronouncing Dict., up until ed. 8 (1947), give first-syllable stress, with second-syllable stress as an alternative; from ed. 11 (1956), the preferred pronunciation has the stress on the second syllable, although until recently (rev. ed. 14, 1988) first-syllable stress was still included as an alternative pronunciation. In U.S. usage there is a similar trend from first-syllable stress (so in Webster (1934)) to second-syllable stress (so in Webster (1961)), although in each edition of Webster the alternative is still recorded as a possible variant. Compare the note at aggrandizement n.

1. transitive. To increase the power, status, or wealth of (a person, country, etc.). Frequently reflexive (cf. self-aggrandizement n. at self- prefix 1a(b)).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [verb (transitive)] > raise in prosperity, power, or rank

arearc885

raisec1175

aggrandize1634

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > majesty, glory, or grandeur > exaltation or glorification > exalt or glorify [verb (transitive)] > increase in rank or power

evect1608

aggrandize1634

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 47 The Persians each moneth conueigh her [sc. Ormus] ribs of wood and stone, to agrandize Gombroone..out of whose ruines, shee begins to triumph.

1682 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Rights Princes (new ed.) Pref. 3 For the aggrandizing or maintaining his nephews and kindred.

1780 W. Coxe Acct. Russ. Discov. 22 Every circumstance which contributes to aggrandize the Russian empire.

1793 E. Burke Remarks Policy Allies in Wks. VII. 183 I think no Country can be aggrandized whilst France is jacobinised.

1800 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) I. 207 If we aggrandize ourselves at the expense of the Mahrattas.

1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 96 Venice was aggrandised by this traffic.

1902 Pop. Sci. Monthly May 89/1 Now his will is misunderstood in some quarters; it is said on the one hand to aim to aggrandize England at the cost of other nations, and, on the other hand, to be chimerical.

1965 L. Trilling Beyond Culture (1967) Pref. 14 We can say of it, as we can say of any other class with a degree of power, that it seems to aggrandize and perpetuate itself.

2009 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 1 Feb. 12 It will help historians understand whether Goering was a Renaissance man, as he liked to aggrandise himself, a great collector, or whether he was a buffoon.

2. transitive. To make (something) larger or more intense; to enlarge, increase, magnify. In later use esp.: to increase (power or influence).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (transitive)]

echeOE

ekec1200

multiplya1275

morea1300

increase13..

vaunce1303

enlargec1380

augmenta1400

accrease1402

alargea1425

amply?a1425

great?1440

hainc1440

creasec1475

grow1481

amplea1500

to get upa1500

improve1509

ampliatea1513

auge1542

over1546

amplify1549

raise1583

grand1602

swell1602

magnoperate1610

greaten1613

accresce1626

aggrandize1638

majoratea1651

adauge1657

protend1659

reinforce1660

examplify1677

pluralize1750

to drive up1817

to whoop up1856

to jack up1884

upbuild1890

steepen1909

up1934

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 8 The divell..has infused..prodigious idolatry into their hearts, enough to rellish the divells pallat and agrandize their owne tortures.

1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso 48 Making use of the calamities of others, as an instrument thereby to agrandize his authority.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. viii. 78 That no circumstance might be wanting which could aggrandize our distress.

1786 T. Baldwin Airopaidia viii. 53 The [clouds]..were aggrandized into a Sea of Cotton, but more white; and dazling.

1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect ii. ii. 461 The whole soul passing into one sense aggrandizes that sense and starves the rest.

1857 J. Ruskin Polit. Econ. Art i. 80 The selfish and tyrannous means they commonly take to aggrandize or secure their power.

1911 C. Warren Hist. Amer. Bar iv. 100 For this purpose, every method was taken to aggrandize the power of the Assembly.

1960 J. Barth Sot-weed Factor i. x. 96 From that day forward the Assembly was at odds with us, and played us false, and lost no chance to diminish our power and aggrandize their own.

1980 Daily Tel. 30 May 2/3 They do it in order to compete for membership with other unions—and to aggrandise their own personal power.

2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Sept. 4/3 These Harvard lectures were in the main devoted by Steiner to aggrandizing his own profession.

†3. intransitive. To become greater (in size, power, etc.); to increase. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (intransitive)]

forthwaxa900

wax971

growOE

risec1175

anhigh1340

upwax1340

creasec1380

increasec1380

accreasea1382

augmenta1400

greata1400

mountc1400

morec1425

upgrowc1430

to run up1447

swell?c1450

add1533

accresce1535

gross1548

to get (a) head1577

amount1583

bolla1586

accrue1586

improve1638

aggrandize1647

accumulate1757

raise1761

heighten1803

replenish1814

to turn up1974

1647 J. Hall Poems Pref. sig. A3^v Follies continued till old age, do aggrandize and become horrid.

1704 London Gaz. mmmmlxxiv/2 Could not but with Horrour see him aggrandize in Power.

4. transitive. To cause (a person) appear greater than the reality; to exalt. Also reflexive.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [verb (transitive)] > attach importance to > make more important > of people

exhale1595

aggrandize1702

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > majesty, glory, or grandeur > exaltation or glorification > exalt or glorify [verb (transitive)]

heavec825

higheOE

brightenOE

clarifya1340

glorifya1340

enhancec1374

stellifyc1384

biga1400

exalt?a1400

raisea1400

shrinea1400

to bear up?a1425

enhighc1440

erect?a1475

assumec1503

amount1523

dignifya1530

to set up1535

extol1545

enthronize1547

augment1567

sublimate?1567

sublime1568

assumptc1571

begoda1576

royalize1589

suscitate1598

swell1601

consecrate1605

realize1611

reara1616

sphere1615

ingreata1620

superexalta1626

soara1627

ascend1628

rise1628

embroider1629

apotheose1632

grandize1640

engreaten1641

engrandizea1652

mount1651

intronificate1653

magnificent1656

superposit1661

grandify1665

heroify1677

apotheosize1695

enthrone1699

aggrandize1702

pantheonize1801

hoist1814

princify1847

queen1880

heroize1887

1702 A. Brown Char. True Publick Spirit i. 36 Nor doth any thing aggrandize a man so much..as when he comes off a Victorious & undauntoned Conqueror, after the sharpest Bickerings & Conflicts with both fortunes.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison III. xviii. 158 Your pretty imagination is always at work to aggrandize the man, and to lower the babies.

1833 C. Lamb Pop. Fallacies xvi, in Last Ess. Elia 279 The first thing to aggrandise a man in his own conceit, is to conceive of himself as neglected.

1874 A. Trollope Lady Anna I. xx. 258 More devoted than the pelican, she would have given her heart's blood..not only to nurture, but to aggrandize her child.

1928 E. A. Parker tr. V. Chapot Rom. World i. ii. 24 One of the first to be thus aggrandized by circumstances was Gnæus Pompey (106–48).

1962 P. Scott Birds of Paradise (1967) I. vii. 90 I humiliated him physically not only for the pleasure of getting best or making him take back, but in order to aggrandise myself in front of her.

1993 R. Shilts Conduct Unbecoming vi. lxxi. 675 He hoped to aggrandize himself by dying a hero's death, going out in a blaze of glory.

5. transitive. To make (something) appear greater; to give a character of grandeur to; (also) to enhance beyond what is justified by the facts; to embellish, exaggerate.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [verb (transitive)] > attach importance to > make more important

arearc885

upheavea1300

upraisea1300

uphigh13..

enhancec1325

liftc1330

uplift1338

uphebbe1340

uptakec1340

magnifya1382

upreara1382

uphancec1390

preponder?1504

upbring1513

exaggerate1564

greaten1589

weighc1595

to make much matter ofa1649

aggravate1698

aggrandize1709

beef1941

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautify [verb (transitive)] > invest with splendour > render magnificent

magnifya1382

adornc1425

emperiala1475

emblazea1529

enamel1593

magnificate1598

aggrandize1709

1709 J. Reynolds Death's Vision Pref. 2 'Tis pleaded, that Religion Aggrandizes a Poem.

1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. Diss. i. sig. g3 Nothing could aggrandise Fingal's heroism more highly.

1781 S. Johnson Pope in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VII. 286 The ship-race, compared with the chariot-race, is neither illustrated nor aggrandised.

1820 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 139/1 Other misstatements have crept into the returns of existing families, in some cases from unavoidable oversight, in man..in a very few from wilfulness, from an anxiety to aggrandize family importance.

1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. ix. 159 The scene, though small, is yet aggrandized..with much art.

1904 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 182 In objecting to an artificial limitation of the field of the psychologist, I by no means want to aggrandize his office or to let psychology eat up the other sciences.

1974 M. Ayrton Midas Consequence (1978) i. 44 He didn't carve but hired Italians to aggrandise his marbles from plasters and bronze maquettes.

2006 Independent on Sunday 25 June 50/2 We stashers have an infuriating tendency to aggrandise our hoards.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	aggrandize
释义	aggrandizev. Brit. /əˈɡrandʌɪz/, U.S. /əˈɡrænˌdaɪz/ Forms: 1600s agrandise, 1600s agrandize, 1600s– aggrandise, 1600s– aggrandize. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French agrandiss-, aggrandiss-, agrandir, aggrandir. Etymology: < French agrandiss-, †aggrandiss-, extended stem (compare -ish suffix²) of agrandir, †aggrandir to make (a person or thing) greater or larger (first quarter of the 13th cent. in Old French), to become greater (second quarter of the 13th cent.; < a- a- prefix⁵ + grand grand adj.), with subsequent remodelling of the ending after verbs in -ize suffix. Compare Italian aggrandire, †agrandire (a1292). N.E.D. (1884) gives the pronunciation as (æ·græ̆ndəiz) /ˈæɡrændaɪz/. Early editions of D. Jones Eng. Pronouncing Dict., up until ed. 8 (1947), give first-syllable stress, with second-syllable stress as an alternative; from ed. 11 (1956), the preferred pronunciation has the stress on the second syllable, although until recently (rev. ed. 14, 1988) first-syllable stress was still included as an alternative pronunciation. In U.S. usage there is a similar trend from first-syllable stress (so in Webster (1934)) to second-syllable stress (so in Webster (1961)), although in each edition of Webster the alternative is still recorded as a possible variant. Compare the note at aggrandizement n. 1. transitive. To increase the power, status, or wealth of (a person, country, etc.). Frequently reflexive (cf. self-aggrandizement n. at self- prefix 1a(b)). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [verb (transitive)] > raise in prosperity, power, or rank arearc885 raisec1175 aggrandize1634 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > majesty, glory, or grandeur > exaltation or glorification > exalt or glorify [verb (transitive)] > increase in rank or power evect1608 aggrandize1634 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 47 The Persians each moneth conueigh her [sc. Ormus] ribs of wood and stone, to agrandize Gombroone..out of whose ruines, shee begins to triumph. 1682 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Rights Princes (new ed.) Pref. 3 For the aggrandizing or maintaining his nephews and kindred. 1780 W. Coxe Acct. Russ. Discov. 22 Every circumstance which contributes to aggrandize the Russian empire. 1793 E. Burke Remarks Policy Allies in Wks. VII. 183 I think no Country can be aggrandized whilst France is jacobinised. 1800 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) I. 207 If we aggrandize ourselves at the expense of the Mahrattas. 1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 96 Venice was aggrandised by this traffic. 1902 Pop. Sci. Monthly May 89/1 Now his will is misunderstood in some quarters; it is said on the one hand to aim to aggrandize England at the cost of other nations, and, on the other hand, to be chimerical. 1965 L. Trilling Beyond Culture (1967) Pref. 14 We can say of it, as we can say of any other class with a degree of power, that it seems to aggrandize and perpetuate itself. 2009 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 1 Feb. 12 It will help historians understand whether Goering was a Renaissance man, as he liked to aggrandise himself, a great collector, or whether he was a buffoon. 2. transitive. To make (something) larger or more intense; to enlarge, increase, magnify. In later use esp.: to increase (power or influence). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (transitive)] echeOE ekec1200 multiplya1275 morea1300 increase13.. vaunce1303 enlargec1380 augmenta1400 accrease1402 alargea1425 amply?a1425 great?1440 hainc1440 creasec1475 grow1481 amplea1500 to get upa1500 improve1509 ampliatea1513 auge1542 over1546 amplify1549 raise1583 grand1602 swell1602 magnoperate1610 greaten1613 accresce1626 aggrandize1638 majoratea1651 adauge1657 protend1659 reinforce1660 examplify1677 pluralize1750 to drive up1817 to whoop up1856 to jack up1884 upbuild1890 steepen1909 up1934 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 8 The divell..has infused..prodigious idolatry into their hearts, enough to rellish the divells pallat and agrandize their owne tortures. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso 48 Making use of the calamities of others, as an instrument thereby to agrandize his authority. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. viii. 78 That no circumstance might be wanting which could aggrandize our distress. 1786 T. Baldwin Airopaidia viii. 53 The [clouds]..were aggrandized into a Sea of Cotton, but more white; and dazling. 1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect ii. ii. 461 The whole soul passing into one sense aggrandizes that sense and starves the rest. 1857 J. Ruskin Polit. Econ. Art i. 80 The selfish and tyrannous means they commonly take to aggrandize or secure their power. 1911 C. Warren Hist. Amer. Bar iv. 100 For this purpose, every method was taken to aggrandize the power of the Assembly. 1960 J. Barth Sot-weed Factor i. x. 96 From that day forward the Assembly was at odds with us, and played us false, and lost no chance to diminish our power and aggrandize their own. 1980 Daily Tel. 30 May 2/3 They do it in order to compete for membership with other unions—and to aggrandise their own personal power. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Sept. 4/3 These Harvard lectures were in the main devoted by Steiner to aggrandizing his own profession. †3. intransitive. To become greater (in size, power, etc.); to increase. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (intransitive)] forthwaxa900 wax971 growOE risec1175 anhigh1340 upwax1340 creasec1380 increasec1380 accreasea1382 augmenta1400 greata1400 mountc1400 morec1425 upgrowc1430 to run up1447 swell?c1450 add1533 accresce1535 gross1548 to get (a) head1577 amount1583 bolla1586 accrue1586 improve1638 aggrandize1647 accumulate1757 raise1761 heighten1803 replenish1814 to turn up1974 1647 J. Hall Poems Pref. sig. A3^v Follies continued till old age, do aggrandize and become horrid. 1704 London Gaz. mmmmlxxiv/2 Could not but with Horrour see him aggrandize in Power. 4. transitive. To cause (a person) appear greater than the reality; to exalt. Also reflexive. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [verb (transitive)] > attach importance to > make more important > of people exhale1595 aggrandize1702 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > majesty, glory, or grandeur > exaltation or glorification > exalt or glorify [verb (transitive)] heavec825 higheOE brightenOE clarifya1340 glorifya1340 enhancec1374 stellifyc1384 biga1400 exalt?a1400 raisea1400 shrinea1400 to bear up?a1425 enhighc1440 erect?a1475 assumec1503 amount1523 dignifya1530 to set up1535 extol1545 enthronize1547 augment1567 sublimate?1567 sublime1568 assumptc1571 begoda1576 royalize1589 suscitate1598 swell1601 consecrate1605 realize1611 reara1616 sphere1615 ingreata1620 superexalta1626 soara1627 ascend1628 rise1628 embroider1629 apotheose1632 grandize1640 engreaten1641 engrandizea1652 mount1651 intronificate1653 magnificent1656 superposit1661 grandify1665 heroify1677 apotheosize1695 enthrone1699 aggrandize1702 pantheonize1801 hoist1814 princify1847 queen1880 heroize1887 1702 A. Brown Char. True Publick Spirit i. 36 Nor doth any thing aggrandize a man so much..as when he comes off a Victorious & undauntoned Conqueror, after the sharpest Bickerings & Conflicts with both fortunes. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison III. xviii. 158 Your pretty imagination is always at work to aggrandize the man, and to lower the babies. 1833 C. Lamb Pop. Fallacies xvi, in Last Ess. Elia 279 The first thing to aggrandise a man in his own conceit, is to conceive of himself as neglected. 1874 A. Trollope Lady Anna I. xx. 258 More devoted than the pelican, she would have given her heart's blood..not only to nurture, but to aggrandize her child. 1928 E. A. Parker tr. V. Chapot Rom. World i. ii. 24 One of the first to be thus aggrandized by circumstances was Gnæus Pompey (106–48). 1962 P. Scott Birds of Paradise (1967) I. vii. 90 I humiliated him physically not only for the pleasure of getting best or making him take back, but in order to aggrandise myself in front of her. 1993 R. Shilts Conduct Unbecoming vi. lxxi. 675 He hoped to aggrandize himself by dying a hero's death, going out in a blaze of glory. 5. transitive. To make (something) appear greater; to give a character of grandeur to; (also) to enhance beyond what is justified by the facts; to embellish, exaggerate. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [verb (transitive)] > attach importance to > make more important arearc885 upheavea1300 upraisea1300 uphigh13.. enhancec1325 liftc1330 uplift1338 uphebbe1340 uptakec1340 magnifya1382 upreara1382 uphancec1390 preponder?1504 upbring1513 exaggerate1564 greaten1589 weighc1595 to make much matter ofa1649 aggravate1698 aggrandize1709 beef1941 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautify [verb (transitive)] > invest with splendour > render magnificent magnifya1382 adornc1425 emperiala1475 emblazea1529 enamel1593 magnificate1598 aggrandize1709 1709 J. Reynolds Death's Vision Pref. 2 'Tis pleaded, that Religion Aggrandizes a Poem. 1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. Diss. i. sig. g3 Nothing could aggrandise Fingal's heroism more highly. 1781 S. Johnson Pope in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VII. 286 The ship-race, compared with the chariot-race, is neither illustrated nor aggrandised. 1820 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 139/1 Other misstatements have crept into the returns of existing families, in some cases from unavoidable oversight, in man..in a very few from wilfulness, from an anxiety to aggrandize family importance. 1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. ix. 159 The scene, though small, is yet aggrandized..with much art. 1904 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 182 In objecting to an artificial limitation of the field of the psychologist, I by no means want to aggrandize his office or to let psychology eat up the other sciences. 1974 M. Ayrton Midas Consequence (1978) i. 44 He didn't carve but hired Italians to aggrandise his marbles from plasters and bronze maquettes. 2006 Independent on Sunday 25 June 50/2 We stashers have an infuriating tendency to aggrandise our hoards. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1634
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