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  • English Word Magnificat Definition The song of the Virgin Mary, Luke i. 46; -- so called because it commences with this word in the Vulgate.
  • English Word Magnificate Definition To magnify or extol.
  • English Word Magnification Definition The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration.
  • English Word Magnificence Definition The act of doing what magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent.
  • English Word Magnificent Definition Doing grand things; admirable in action; displaying great power or opulence, especially in building, way of living, and munificence.
  • English Word Magnificent Definition Grand in appearance; exhibiting grandeur or splendor; splendid' pompous.
  • English Word Magnificently Definition In a Magnificent manner.
  • English Word Magnifico Definition A grandee or nobleman of Venice; -- so called in courtesy.
  • English Word Magnifico Definition A rector of a German university.
  • English Word Magnificoes Definition of Magnifico
  • English Word Magnified Definition of Magnify
  • English Word Magnifier Definition One who, or that which, magnifies.
  • English Word Magnify Definition To make great, or greater; to increase the dimensions of; to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the object by a thousand diameters.
  • English Word Magnify Definition To increase the importance of; to augment the esteem or respect in which one is held.
  • English Word Magnify Definition To praise highly; to land; to extol.
  • English Word Magnify Definition To exaggerate; as, to magnify a loss or a difficulty.
  • English Word Magnify Definition To have the power of causing objects to appear larger than they really are; to increase the apparent dimensions of objects; as, some lenses magnify but little.
  • English Word Magnify Definition To have effect; to be of importance or significance.
  • English Word Magnifying Definition of Magnify
  • English Word Magniloquence Definition The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.
  • English Word Magniloquent Definition Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent.
  • English Word Magniloquous Definition Magniloquent.
  • English Word Magnitude Definition Extent of dimensions; size; -- applied to things that have length, breath, and thickness.
  • English Word Magnitude Definition That which has one or more of the three dimensions, length, breadth, and thickness.
  • English Word Magnitude Definition Anything of which greater or less can be predicated, as time, weight, force, and the like.
  • English Word Magnitude Definition Greatness; grandeur.
  • English Word Magnitude Definition Greatness, in reference to influence or effect; importance; as, an affair of magnitude.
  • English Word Magnolia Definition A genus of American and Asiatic trees, with aromatic bark and large sweet-scented whitish or reddish flowers.
  • English Word Magnoliaceous Definition Pertaining to a natural order (Magnoliaceae) of trees of which the magnolia, the tulip tree, and the star anise are examples.
  • English Word Magnum Definition A large wine bottle.