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<p><b>3.</b> <def>To praise highly; to land; to extol.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<blockquote>O, <b>magnify</b> the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. <i>Ps. xxxiv. 3.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To exaggerate; <as>as, to <ex>magnify</ex> a loss or a difficulty</as>.</def>

<cs><col>To magnify one's self</col> <fld>(Script.)</fld>, <cd>to exhibit pride and haughtiness; to boast.</cd> -- <col>To magnify one's self against</col> <fld>(Script.)</fld>, <cd>to oppose with pride.</cd></cs>

<h1>Magnify</h1> <Xpage=882>

<hw>Mag"ni*fy</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To have the power of causing objects to appear larger than they really are; to increase the apparent dimensions of objects; <as>as, some lenses <ex>magnify</ex> but little</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To have effect; to be of importance or significance.</def> <mark>[Cant & Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spectator.</i>

<cs><col>Magnifying glass</col>, <cd>a lens which magnifies the apparent dimensions of objects seen through it.</cd></cs>

<h1>Magniloquence</h1> <Xpage=882>

<hw>Mag*nil"o*quence</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>magniloquentia</ets>.]</ety> <def>The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.</def>

<h1>Magniloquent</h1> <Xpage=882>

<hw>Mag*nil"o*quent</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>magnus</ets> great + <ets>loquens</ets>, <ets>-entis</ets>, p. pr. of <ets>loqui</ets> to speak. See <er>Magnitude</er>, <er>Loquacious</er>.]</ety> <def>Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Mag*nil"o*quent*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Magniloquous</h1> <Xpage=882>

<hw>Mag*nil"o*quous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>magniloquus</ets>.]</ety> <def>Magniloquent.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Magnitude</h1> <Xpage=882>

<hw>Mag"ni*tude</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>magnitudo</ets>, from <ets>magnus</ets> great. See <er>Master</er>, and cf. <er>Maxim</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Extent of dimensions; size; -- applied to things that have length, breath, and thickness.</def>

<blockquote>Conceive those particles of bodies to be so disposed amongst themselves, that the intervals of empty spaces between them may be equal in <b>magnitude</b> to them all. <i>Sir I. Newton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Geom.)</fld> <def>That which has one or more of the three dimensions, length, breadth, and thickness.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Anything of which greater or less can be predicated, as time, weight, force, and the like.</def>

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<p><b>4.</b> <def>Greatness; grandeur.</def> "With plain, heroic <i>magnitude</i> of mind."

<i>Milton.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Greatness, in reference to influence or effect; importance; <as>as, an affair of <ex>magnitude</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>magnitude</b> of his designs. <i>Bp. Horsley.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Apparent magnitude</col> <fld>(Opt.)</fld>, <cd>the angular breadth of an object viewed as measured by the angle which it subtends at the eye of the observer; -- called also <altname>apparent diameter</altname>.</cd> -- <col>Magnitude of a star</col> <fld>(Astron.)</fld>, <cd>the rank of a star with respect to brightness. About twenty very bright stars are said to be of first magnitude, the stars of the sixth magnitude being just visible to the naked eye. Telescopic stars are classified down to the twelfth magnitude or lower. The scale of the magnitudes is quite arbitrary, but by means of photometers, the classification has been made to tenths of a magnitude.</cd></cs> <-- the difference in actual brightness between magnitudes is now specified as a factor of 2.512, i.e. the difference in brightness is 100 for stars differing by five magnitudes. -->

<h1>Magnolia</h1> <Xpage=883>

<hw>Mag*no"li*a</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL. Named after Pierre <ets>Magnol</ets>, professor of botany at Montpellier, France, in the 17th century.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A genus of American and Asiatic trees, with aromatic bark and large sweet-scented whitish or reddish flowers.</def>