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Webster 1913 Edition
Magnificent
1.
Doing grand things; admirable in action; displaying great power or opulence, especially in building, way of living, and munificence.
A prince is never so
As when he’s sparing to enrich a few
With the injuries of many.
magnificent
As when he’s sparing to enrich a few
With the injuries of many.
Massinger.
2.
Grand in appearance; exhibiting grandeur or splendor; splendid; pompous.
When Rome's exalted beauties I descry
Magnificent
in piles of ruin lie. Addison.
Syn. – Glorious; majestic; sublime. See
Grand
. Webster 1828 Edition
Magnificent
MAGNIF'ICENT
,Adj.
Man he made, and for him built
Magnificent this world.
1.
Exhibiting grandeur.