amplificatory

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adjective

Serving to amplify or enlarge; amplificative.

Scrabble 25

Meanings

adjectiveamplificatory (comparative more amplificatory, superlative most amplificatory)

comparative more amplificatory · superlative most amplificatory

  1. Serving to amplify or enlarge; amplificative.

    […] the latter expresses something respecting the former which, instead of being a mere analysis of its meaning, indicates an actual increase of our knowledge concerning it, on which account such judgments were termed by Kant amplificatory, as adding something to our former ideas on the question.

    1846, John Daniel Morell, An Historical and Critical View of the Speculative Philosophy of Europe in the Nineteenth Century

Translations

Portuguese amplificador, amplificante
  • amplificadorserving to amplify or enlarge
  • amplificanteserving to amplify or enlarge
  • amplificativoserving to amplify or enlarge
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Chicago

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