ampliation

American  

[am-plee-ey-shuhn] / ˌæm pliˈeɪ ʃən /

noun

Archaic.

1. an enlarging or extending; amplification.

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Etymology

Origin of ampliation

1500–10; < Latin ampliātiōn- (stem of ampliātiō ) an extending. See ampliate, -ion

Example Sentences

And therefore I said the word was rather for ampliation, that is, rather to encourage these who accounted themselves excluded, than to exclude any who desire to come.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

Pour ampliation: Le sous-secr�taire d'�tat au d�partement de l'int�rieur, A. Passy.

From Movement of the International Literary Exchanges, between France and North America from January 1845 to May, 1846 With Instructions for Collecting, Preparing, and Forwarding Objects of Natural History Written by The Professors Administrators of The Museum Of Natural History At Paris. And Instructions Relative to Anthropology and Zoology by Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore