Enlarge

Enlarge - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

ENL`ARGE, v.t. enlarj. [from large.] To make greater in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits, breadth or side; to expand in bulk. Every man desires to enlarge his possessions; the prince, his dominions. and the landholder, his farm. The body is enlarged by nutrition, and a good man rejoices to enlarge the sphere of his benevolence.

God shall enlarge Japhet. Gen 9.

1. To dilate; to expand; as with joy or love.

O ye, Corinthians, our mouth is open to you, our

heart is enlarged.

2. To expand; to make more comprehensive. Science enlarges the mind.

3. To increase in appearance; to magnify to the eye; as by a glass.

4. To set at liberty; to release from confinement or pressure.

5. To extend in a discourse; to diffuse in eloquence.

They enlarged themselves on this subject.

In this application, the word is generally intransitive.

6. To augment; to increase; to make large or larger, in a general sense; a word of general application.

To enlarge the heart, may signify to open and expand in good will; to make free, liberal and charitable.

ENL`ARGE, v.i. enlarj. To grow large or larger; to extend; to dilate; to expand. A plant enlarges by growth; an estate enlarges by good management; a volume of air enlarges by rarefaction.

1. To be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate. I might enlarge on this topic.

2. To exaggerate.

Enlargement - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

ENL`ARGEMENT, n. Increase of size or bulk, real or apparent; extension of dimensions or limits; augmentation; dilatation; expansion. The enlargement of bulk may be by accretion or addition; of dimensions, by spreading, or by additions to length and breadth; of a sum or amount, by addition, collection or accumulation.

1. Expansion or extension, applied to the mind, to knowledge, or to the intellectual powers, by which the mind comprehends a wider range of ideas or thought.

2. Expansion of the heart, by which it becomes more benevolent and charitable.

3. Release from confinement, servitude, distress or straits. Est 4.

4. Diffusiveness of speech or writing; an expatiating on a particular subject; a wide range of discourse or argument.

en-larj', en-larj'-ment:

"To enlarge" is very frequently used figuratively: "God enlarge Japheth" (Ge 9:27), i.e. "make him a great nation"; or "Thou hast enlarged my steps under me" (2Sa 22:37), i.e. "Thou hast given me success." A very peculiar use of "enlarge" is found in the King James Version Ps 4:1: "Thou hast enlarged me" (the Revised Version (British and American) "set me at large"), i.e. "Thou hast given me freedom, deliverance from distress." "Our heart is enlarged" (platuno; 2Co 6:11), and "Be ye also enlarged" (2Co 6:13), express great love of one party to another. See also 1Sa 2:1, "My mouth is enlarged," i.e. "full of praise." Eze 41:7, "were broader" (the King James Version "an enlarging").

Enlargement, the King James Version, Es 4:14 from rawach, "to enlarge," "to respite," is rendered "relief" by the Revised Version (British and American) in better harmony with "deliverance" with which the word is paired.

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