magnific
Americanadjective
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magnificent; imposing.
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grandiose; pompous.
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of magnific
1480–90; < Latin magnificus grand ( see magni-, -fic); replacing earlier magnyfyque < Middle French < Latin as above
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And dare earth’s bold inhabitants deny The sumptuous, the magnific embassy A moment’s audience?
From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young
May their magnific deeds create A glow of sympathy Which shall increase till every chain Enslaving man be snapped in twain, And universal Freedom reign In glorious majesty.
From The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects by Thomas Cowherd
Thus far, in magnific strain, A young poet soothed his vein, But he had nor prose nor numbers, To express a princess' slumbers.—
From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Charles Lamb
Two temples of magnific size Attract the curious traveller's eyes, That might be envied by the Greeks; Raised up by you in twenty weeks: Here gentle goddess Cloacine Receives all offerings at her shrine.
From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by William Ernst Browning
Jaquis sized and summed her up in the one word "magnific."
From The Last Spike And Other Railroad Stories by Cy Warman
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