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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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
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 Robert Black
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 William Sharp
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
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
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