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magnoperates

magnoperates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of magnoperate.

Meaning of magnoperate

Verb (1)

magnoperate (third-person singular simple present magnoperates, present participle magnoperating, simple past and past participle magnoperated)

  1. (rare, transitive) To magnify the greatness of (someone or something); to exalt.
    • [A]fter-ages may rightly admire what noble Mecœnas it was that ſo inchayned the aſpiring wits of this vnderſtanding age to his only cenſure, which will not a little magnoperate the ſplendor of your well knowne Honour, to theſe ſucceeding times.1610, Arthur Hopton, “To the Right Honovrable, Robert Earle of Salisbvry, [...]”, in Bacvlvm Geodæticvm, sive Viaticvm. Or The Geodeticall Staffe, […], London: […] Nicholas Okes for Simon Waterson...
  2. (intransitive, rare) To act grandly.
    • Meanwhile you cannot help liking his [Herbert Beerbohm Tree's] Antony—which, of course, is quite the right frame of mind. There is something large and liberal and genial in the man; you are made to feel that, in [Lord] Byron's phrase, he is used to "magnoperating."1906 December 28, “His Majesty’s Theatre. ‘Antony and Cleopatra.’ [theatre review]”, in The Times, number 38,215, London: George Edward Wright, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 6

Verb (2)

magnoperate (third-person singular simple present magnoperates, present participle magnoperating, simple past and past participle magnoperated)

  1. (intransitive, rare) To work on one's magnum opus (“great or important work of art, literature, or music, a masterpiece; best, most popular, or most renowned achievement of an artist or author, representing their major life effort”).
    • Your dwarf of a letter came yesterday. That is right;—keep to your 'magnum opus'—magnoperate away.1821 June 22, Lord Byron, “Letter CCCCXXXV. To Mr. [Thomas] Moore.”, in Thomas Moore, editor, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, […], volume II, London: John Murray, […]...

Questions about magnoperates

What is magnoperates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Magnoperates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of magnoperate.

Words near magnoperates in the dictionary

  1. magnonics
  2. magnonnaise
  3. magnons
  4. magnoperate
  5. magnoperated
  6. magnoperates
  7. magnoperating
  8. magnorder
  9. magnorders
  10. magnotherapy
  11. magnotrapezoid

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