adjective
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Having been visually enlarged by the process of magnification.
example
The image was magnified by a factor of eight.
verb
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To praise, glorify (someone or something, especially God).
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To make (something) larger or more important.
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To make (someone or something) appear greater or more important than it is; to intensify, exaggerate.
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To make (something) appear larger by means of a lens, magnifying glass, telescope etc.
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To have effect; to be of importance or significance.
Examples of magnified in a Sentence
The few freckles she had were magnified, but the dark circles under her eyes were a surprise.
Between these two extremes, Magnified 20 times.
Light and shadow bent and swirled around him, his magic magnified by the immortal world.
The distance of the lucid points was the tangent of the magnified angles subtended by the stars to a radius of io ft.
Highly magnified (both from Hamann).
If, however, the half-covered aperture be in front of the object-glass, the phenomenon is magnified as a whole, and the desirable relation between the (unmagnified) dispersion and the aperture is the same as without the telescope.
Forged and annealed, magnified r000 diameters, showing pearlite.
Oil hardened and annealed, magnified 50 diameters.
Magnified 500 times.
Flower more highly magnified and cut open.
Magnified 7 times.
His unwillingness to agree to the coalition was magnified into a determination to defeat it, though it is quite obvious that he could only gain by the humiliation of Frederick, and nothing was ever proved against him.
Magnified 25 0 diameters.
The affair was magnified in the Convention into a deliberate murder of the "representative of the Republic" by the pope's orders.
And the impulses felt by a single person are always magnified in a crowd.
Yet while they had magnified, the Crusades had also corrupted the papacy.
C, portion of a proboscis showing the two forms of hooks; highly magnified.
D, a flame-cell from the excretory apparatus, highly magnified (from Fraipont).
But as the claims of the church to be the guardian through its episcopate of the apostolic tradition, of the Christian faith itself, were magnified, and unity in practice as well as in doctrine came to be regarded as essential, this distinction became a theoretical rather than a practical one.
Of course, the earthforming animal is a preternaturally gifted one, and is on the line of development towards that magnified man who, in a later stage, becomes the demiurge.'
About minus (India)half-a-dozen species only are known in South magnified.
From top of ingot as cast, magnified 29 diameters.
Top of ingot, forged and annealed, magnified 2 9 diameters.
The pearlite when highly magnified somewhat resembles the lead-tin eutectic of fig.
Magnified 30 times.
Magnified 4 times, cu cuneus.
Real,inverted,diminished same size „ magnified Virtual, erect, magnified Erect, same size Position of Image.
The many floating and fragmentary notes of various dates that have found a place in the account of his reign in the book of Kings (q.v.) show how much Hebrew tradition was occupied with the monarch under whom the throne of Israel reached its highest glory; and that time only magnified in popular imagination the proportions of so striking a figure appears from the opinions entertained of him in subsequent writings.
His inexorable discipline (magnified into cruelty by later legends) soon made the Gatchina corps a model for the rest of the Russian army.
They may, it is true, be associated with ghost gods, but in Australia it cannot even be asserted that the gods are spirits at all, much less that they are the spirits of dead men; they are simply magnified magicians, super-men who have never died; we have no ground, therefore, for regarding the cult of the dead as the origin of religion in this area; this conclusion is the more probable, as ancestor-worship and the cult of the dead generally cannot be said to exist in Australia.
Magnified about twentyseven times.
The motion is first magnified by the lever, and, on its communication to a complex lever system above the stationary mass, is still further magnified before registration, which is effected by a pen supplied with ink writing on white paper.
God is magnified as the One, the All-powerful.
All these considerations were magnified by Henry's passion for Anne Boleyn, though she certainly was not the sole or the main cause of the divorce.
Sentiment and tradition have magnified his achievements, and confused his career with tales of portents and magical powers.
Slightly magnified.
A, Abdomen of queen, under side (magnified eight times).
His first telescope magnified three diameters; but he soon made instruments which magnified eight diameters, and finally one that magnified thirty-three diameters.'
The eye perceives this picture, which gives the impression of the T much magnified, but turned upside down.
With emphasis upon God as creator and ruler, and upon man as made in God's image, endowed with an unending existence, and subject to eternal torture if not redeemed, the concept of personality has been exalted at the expense of that of nature, and the future has been magnified at the expense of the present.
When we recollect that the Ethiopian Tearchus (Tirhaka) of the 7th century B.C., who was hopelessly worsted by the Assyrians and scarcely ventured outside the Nile valley, was credited by Megasthenes (4th century) and Strabo with having extended his conquests as far as India and the pillars of Hercules, it is not surprising if the dim figures of antiquity were magnified to a less degree.
Thus there is good evidence to show that many of the early gods, notably those that are held to be especially well disposed to man, are conceived rather in the shape of magnified nonnatural men dwelling somewhere apart, such as the Munganngaur of the Kurnai of S.E.
All are narrow in comparison with their length, which is not infrequently magnified to view when two lakes are connected by a very short stretch of running water with a navigable fall of a few feet, such as those between Hornafvan, Uddjaur and Storafvan on the Skellefte river.
Still more offensive was the attitude of Sweden's eastern neighbour Muscovy, with whom the Swedish king was nervously anxious to stand on good terms. Gustavus attributed to Ivan IV., whose resources he unduly magnified, the design of establishing a universal monarchy round the Baltic.
Gustavus, whose lively imagination was easily excited by religious ardour, enormously magnified clerical influence in Poland and frequently scented dangers where only difficulties existed.
But the results of the saner researches of Randall Maclver, announced first at the South Africa meeting of the British Association (1905) and later communicated to the Royal Geographical Society, have robbed these structures of much of their glamour; from being the centres of Phoenician and Hebrew industry they have sunk to be mere magnified kraals, not more than three or four hundred years old.
Legend has magnified the victory into the rout of 200,000 Moslems under five kings; but so far was the battle from being decisive that in 1140 the Moors were able to seize the fortress of Leiria, built by Alphonso in 1135 as an outpost for the defence of Coimbra, his capital.
Germinating spores in various stages, more highly magnified, and showing the different ways of escape of the filament from the spore-membrane.
Branched fruticose zoogloea of Cladothrix (slightly magnified).
While the doctrine of election magnified God's grace, and so encouraged humility in man, it minimized man's freedom, and so produced either an over-confidence in those who believed themselves elect, or despair in those who could not reach the assurance.