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magnificates

magnificates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of magnificate.

Meaning of magnificate

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

Questions about magnificates

What is magnificates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Magnificates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of magnificate.

Words near magnificates in the dictionary

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

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