+ampliation

[In Fr. ampliation; Sp. ampliacion; Port. ampliação; Ital. amplia zione; from Lat. ampliatio.] A. Ordinary Language: 1. Enlargement, extension. "Odious matters admit not of an ampliation , but ought to be restrained and interpreted in the mildest sense."- Ayliffe's Parergon. 2. Diffusene amplification of style. "The obscurity of the subject, and the prejudice and prepo e ion of most readers, may plead excuse for any ampliations or repetitions that may be found, whilst I labour to expre myself plain and full." Holder. IMG:content-0478.png:[blocks in formation] I. Ordinary Language: 1. Gen.: Enlargement or extension of space, or of a material object. Specially , an enlargement of the ordinary size of an object by the aid of the microscope. "The degree of the amplification of the one-fiftieth object-gla made for me.."-Beale: Bioplasm (1872), §3. 2. Specially : In the same sense as No. II. (Rhet.) elaborate amplifications, in which epithet rises above epithet in wearisome climax."-Macaulay: Hist. Ing., ch. vi II. Rhet. A descent to minute particulars in a narrative, so as to lengthen it unduly; the presentation of a subject in many lights, when a smaller number would better answer the purpose; the employment of a multitude of words where a few would be more effective; copiousne of language. ăm'-pli-fied, pa. par. [AMPLIFY.]