magnific

American  

[mag-nif-ik] / mægˈnɪf ɪk /

Also magnifical

adjective

Archaic.

1. magnificent; imposing.

2. grandiose; pompous.

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magnific British  

/ mæɡˈnɪfɪk /

adjective

1. archaic magnificent, grandiose, or pompous

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Other Word Forms

• magnifically adverb

Etymology

Origin of magnific

1480–90; < Latin magnificus grand ( magni-, -fic ); replacing earlier magnyfyque < Middle French < Latin as above

Example Sentences

He commenced the conversation in the most magnific style, and a sort of pioneering to his own vanity, he flattered me with such grossness!

From The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 by Gillman, James

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 Browning, William Ernst

One magnific pall Mantled in massive fold and fall His head, and coiled in snaky swathes About His feet; night's black, that bathes All else, broke, grizzled with despair, Against the soul of blackness there.

From Robert Browning by Dowden, Edward

He commenced the conversation in the most magnific style, and, as a sort of pioneering to his own vanity, he flattered me with such grossness!

From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Or if occasion shall lead, to imitate those magnific odes and hymns, wherein Pindarus and Callimachus are in most things worthy, some others in their frame judicious, in their matter most, and end faulty.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)