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
Example Sentences
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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
Or, again, this of the sun swinging himself above the dark shoulder of Jura-- "Gay he hails her, and magnific, thrilled her black length burns to gold."
From Life of Robert Browning by Sharp, William
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 Lamb, Charles
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 Young, Edward
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)
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