ampliate
verb/ˈæmplieɪt/
Etymology Learned borrowing from Latin ampliātus, past participle of ampliō (“to make wider”). By surface analysis, ample + -i- + -ate.
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Nonstandard, Obsolete To enlarge.
- Hovv glad ſhould vve be rather to ampliate the benefit of the great VVork of our Redeemer?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:
- In this and the two following genera the space between the postcostal vein and ulnar ramus is distinctly ampliated towards the ape1905, Frederick Du Cane Godman, Osbert Salvin, Biologia Centrali-americana: