ampliate

[ am-plee-it, -eyt ]

adjective

1. enlarged; dilated.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ampliate¹

1505–15; < Latin ampliātus extended (past participle of ampliāre ). See ample, -i-, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Some others would ampliate and enrich their native tongue with more vocables, which also I commend, if it be aptly and wittily assayed.

From Project Gutenberg

And shall only take notice of such whose experimental and judicious knowledge shall be employed, not to traduce or extenuate, but to explain and dilucidate, to add and ampliate, according to the laudable custom of the ancients in their sober promotions of learning. 

From Project Gutenberg