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

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Etymology

Origin of magnific

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

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Example Sentences

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magnific

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 Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey

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 Edward Dowden

Power is power, my boy, and still Marks a man,—God's gift magnific, exercised for good or ill.

From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Helen Archibald Clarke

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 Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Helen Archibald Clarke

Allow me to congratulate you," said he, "on your magnific success.

From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Charles Carleton Coffin

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