inlarge

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A form of enlarge — To make (something) larger.

Scrabble 8

Meanings

verbinlarge (third-person singular simple present inlarges, present participle inlarging, simple past and past participle inlarged)

present singular third person inlarges · participle present inlarging · participle past inlarged · past inlarged

  1. archaicArchaic spelling of enlarge.

    This that I did vvas for a policie, / To ſmooth and keepe the murther ſecret, / VVhich at a nine daies vvonder being ore-blovvne, / My gentle ſiſter vvill I novv inlarge.

    c. 1587 (date written), [Thomas Kyd], The Spanish Tragedie: […] (Fourth Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for T[homas] Pauier, […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act III
    1 more example

    […] but if Two Millions, or what elſe may be thought a Convenient Stock, ſhould be underwrit, then there will be no difficulty in Carrying on the Trade, without any Intermiſſion, or danger, than what may be feared by the changing of Committees now Annually made, and the increaſe of the Stock, as it will ſatisfie the Complaints that ariſe from the Contraction of the ſaid Trade, and difficulties of Admiſſion into it, ſo it will occaſion the inlarging thereof; […]

    1697, [John Pollexfen], A Discourse of Trade and Coyn, London, pages 109–110

Origin

  1. Old Frenchenlargier
  2. Middle Englishin large
  3. Englishinlarge

From Middle English in large, from Old French enlargier. By surface analysis, in- + large.

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