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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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
Jaquis sized and summed her up in the one word "magnific."
From The Last Spike And Other Railroad Stories by Warman, Cy
Geneva refused asylum to the proscribed philosopher; he was warned of hostile intentions on the part of the magnific signiors of Berne.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Black, Robert
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 Coffin, Charles Carleton
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
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