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magnificate

magnificate verb: to magnify or extol.

Verb

magnificate (third-person singular simple present magnificates, present participle magnificating, simple past and past participle magnificated)

  1. To magnify or extol.
    • [T]each thy Incubus to Poëtize, / And throvve abroad thy ſpurious Snotteries, / Vpon that puft-up Lumpe of Barmy froth, / […] / Or Clumſy Chil-blain'd Iudgement; that, vvith Oath, / Magnificates his Merit; and beſpaules / The conſcious Time, vvith humorous Fome; & bravvles, / As if his Organons of...1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act V, scene iii

Forms of magnificate

third-person singular presentmagnificates
present participlemagnificating
past participlemagnificated
pastmagnificated

Origin of magnificate

Borrowed from Latin magnificātus, perfect passive participle of magnificō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Questions about magnificate

What does magnificate mean?
Magnificate means to magnify or extol.
What part of speech is magnificate?
Magnificate is a verb.
What is the past tense of magnificate?
The past tense of magnificate is magnificated.

Words near magnificate in the dictionary

  1. magnificalysin
  2. magnificalysins
  3. magnificant
  4. Magnificat
  5. Magnificat and Nunc dimittis
  6. magnificate
  7. magnificated
  8. magnificates
  9. magnificating
  10. magnification
  11. magnifications

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