enlarge oneself

verb

verb

To give free vent to speech.

[They] enlarged themselves with as high expressions against the government as at first1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater:

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