the Week of Proper 5 / Ordinary 10
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Enlarge
King James Dictionary
or ENL`ARGE, enlarj. from large. To make greater in quantity or dimensions to extend in limits, breadth or side to expand in bulk. Every man desires to enlarge his possessions the prince, his dominions. and the landholder, his farm. The body is enlarged by nutrition, and a good man rejoices to enlarge the sphere of his benevolence.
God shall enlarge Japhet. Genesis 9
1. To dilate to expand as with joy or love.
O ye, Corinthians, our mouth is open to you, our
heart is enlarged.
2. To expand to make more comprehensive. Science enlarges the mind.
3. To increase in appearance to magnify to the eye as by a glass.
4. To set at liberty to release from confinement or pressure.
5. To extend in a discourse to diffuse in eloquence.
They enlarged themselves on this subject.
In this application, the word is generally intransitive.
6. To augment to increase to make large or larger, in a general sense a word of general application.
To enlarge the heart, may signify to open and expand in good will to make free, liberal and charitable.
ENL`ARGE, enlarj. To grow large or larger to extend to dilate to expand. A plant enlarges by growth an estate enlarges by good management a volume of air enlarges by rarefaction.
1. To be diffuse in speaking or writing to expatiate. I might enlarge on this topic.
2. To exaggerate.
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Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Enlarge'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/e/enlarge.html.
