magnificate

English

Etymology

From Latin magnificātus, past participle of magnificō.

Verb

magnificate (third-person singular simple present magnificates, present participle magnificating, simple past and past participle magnificated)

1. To magnify or extol.
   • 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act V, scene iii:

     [T]each thy Incubus to Poëtize, / And throvve abroad thy ſpurious Snotteries, / Vpon that puft-up Lumpe of Barmy froth, / […] / Or Clumſy Chil-blain'd Iudgement; that, vvith Oath, / Magnificates his Merit; and beſpaules / The conſcious Time, vvith humorous Fome; & bravvles, / As if his Organons of Senſe vvould crack / The ſinevves of my Patience.

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “magnificate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

magnificate

1. inflection of magnificare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

magnificate f pl

1. feminine plural of magnificato

Latin

Verb

magnificāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of magnificō

Spanish

Verb

magnificate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of magnificar combined with te