Amplifico, amplificas, pen. cor. amplificâre. Liu.To augment: to make better: to amplisie or increase: to ertol or maguify.Augere & amplificare.Cic.Amplitudinem ac gloriam alicuius amplificare.Cicer.To increase.Amplificare & Minuere, contraria.Cic.Ornare aliquem & amplificare.Cic.To promote a man, and increase his substance and honour.Authoritatem amplificare. Cæs. Dolorem amplificare.Cic.Facultatem disserendi amplificauit tibi Academia.Cic.Fortunam.Cic. Gloriam alicuius. Cic.Virtutem laudibus amplificare.Cic.Exaggerare & amplificare orationem.Cic.Pretium amplificare.Cic.To euhaunce the price.Amplificare rem ornando.Cic.Rem familiarem amplificare.Cic.To augment or increase.Amplificare Remp.Cic.To increase the common weale.Conseruare atque amplificare Remp.Cic.Aliquid verbis, aut dicendo amplificare.Cic.In wordes to ertoll or amplisie.Sonus amplificatur.Cic.Is made greater.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
amplĭfĭco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [amplusfacio], to make wide, to widen, extend, enlarge, increase (class., but mostly in prose). I. In gen.: ingressum domūs et atrii amplificavit, Vulg. Eccli. 50, 5: dolorem, Pac. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 21, 50: divitias, Cic. Rep. 3, 12: fortunam, id. Am. 16, 59: sonum,
to strengthen
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increase
, id. N. D. 2, 57: urbem, id. Cat. 3, 1; Liv. 1, 44: rem publicam, Cic. N. D. 2, 3: civitatem, Vulg. Eccli. 50, 5.— Trop.: auctoritas amplificata, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 16: Aeduorum auctoritatem apud omnes Belgas, Caes. B. G. 2, 14: Amplificet Deus nomen Salomonis, Vulg. 3 Reg. 1, 47. —Aliquem aliquā re: (eos) festinatis honoribus amplificat atque auget, Plin. Pan. 69: honore et gloriā amplificati, Cic. Leg. 3, 14: amplificatus auro et argento, Vulg. 1 Macc. 2, 18.—II. Esp., in rhet. t. t., to place a subject in some way in a clearer light, to amplify, dilate upon, enlarge upon: summa laus eloquentiae est amplificare rem ornando, Cic. de Or. 3, 26, 104; cf. id. ib. 1, 51, 221; id. Ac. 2, 2 al.; v. amplificatio.