ampliate
English
Etymology
Latin ampliātus, past participle of ampliō (“to make wider”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
ampliate (comparative more ampliate, superlative most ampliate)
Verb
ampliate (third-person singular simple present ampliates, present participle ampliating, simple past and past participle ampliated)
- (transitive, obsolete) To enlarge.
- 1648, J[oseph] Hall, chapter XXIII, in Select Thoughts: Or, Choice Helps for a Pious Spirit. […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Brooke, […], published 1654, →OCLC, pages 77–78:
- Hovv glad ſhould vve be rather to ampliate the benefit of the great VVork of our Redeemer?
- 1905, Frederick Du Cane Godman, Osbert Salvin, Biologia Centrali-americana
- In this and the two following genera the space between the postcostal vein and ulnar ramus is distinctly ampliated towards the ape
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ampliate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /amˈplja.te/, (traditional) /am.pliˈa.te/[1]
- Rhymes: -ate
- Hyphenation: am‧plià‧te, (traditional) am‧pli‧à‧te
Etymology 1
Verb
ampliate
- inflection of ampliare:
Etymology 2
Participle
ampliate f pl
References
- ^ ampliare in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) ampliāte
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