Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AM'PLI-FY
AM'PLI-FY, v.i.
- To speak largely or copiously; to be diffuse in argument or description; to dilate upon; often followed by on; as, to amplify on the several topics of discourse. – Watts.
- To exaggerate; to enlarge by representation or description; as, Homer amplifies – not invents. – Pope.
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