Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Magnificent.
- adjective Imposingly large.
- adjective Exalted.
- adjective Pompous; grandiloquent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Making great or illustrious; glorifying or glorious; splendid; magnificent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Grand; splendid; illustrious; magnificent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Grand ;splendid ;illustrious ;magnificent .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Brilliant facade, “stairway to heaven”, magnific deconstructed interior!
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În timp ce eu nu au atins încă omniscienţa, şi nu poate, prin urmare, să binecuvânteze tot ce ai citit acest magnific cu prezenţa mea.
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Iste Bathy magnific� se gerit, habens ostianos et omnes officiales ad modum
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Sed vt ad rem: De Religione equidem nostra, qu� qualiseu fuerit, cum Ethnicismus prim鵰 fugari coepit, nihil magnific� diceret possumus: quemadmodum nec alia Septentrionis Regna vicina, vti existimo, de suis fidei initijs.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Imperator, patriam natalem magnific� su� gloria; participem fecit,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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At ipsas domus, seu ipsa hominum domicilia, antiquitus quidem satis magnific� et sumptuos�, quoad huius terr� fert conditio, ligno, cespite et saxis habuerunt
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Et nihil tam magnific� dici potest de nostra Hecla, quin idem, vel maius c鎡eris montibus flammiuomis competat, vt mox apparebit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Lynn� celebri Irenorum ad ripas Isidis emporio, collegio suorum fratrum magnific� pr鎓uit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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It matters not, quoth Epistemon; Heraclitus, the grand Scotist and tenebrous darksome philosopher, was nothing astonished at his introit into such a coarse and paltry habitation; for he did usually show forth unto his sectators and disciples that the gods made as cheerfully their residence in these mean homely mansions as in sumptuous magnific palaces, replenished with all manner of delight, pomp, and pleasure.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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In his abode there he found the library of St. Victor a very stately and magnific one, especially in some books which were there, of which followeth the
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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