In his address to his Galatian disciples, Paul's object was to magnify his own importance at the expense of that of the Apostles: to establish the persuasion, not only of his independence of them, but of his superiority over them.
Thus did this apostle of experiment illustrate its power, andmagnify his office.
After the church had triumphed over all her enemies, the interest as well as vanity of the captives prompted them to magnify the merit of their respective sufferings.
The review appears to have been made with tolerable accuracy; but the vanity, first of the Persians, and afterwards of the Greeks, was interested to magnify the armament and the victory.
Magnificat anima mea Dominum, My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
Mary now uttered that beautiful hymn of praise, beginning, "My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
They swell and magnify the vain show in which you walk.
We magnify our own sincerity, until it becomes vitiated and pretentious.
God forbid that we should magnify love at the expense of law, or make good feeling a substitute for duty.
Of course the enemy gracefully withdrew; and then Perry did the same, leaving Traconis to magnify his triumph.
Chalco route in order to magnify himself and Worth (=68=charges, Nov.
To-day the one thing needful is to magnify the world till it shall satisfy the needs of man; until an equilibrium be established between the universe and the human heart.
It is as dangerous for man to magnify his vices as his virtues; to believe one’s self a monster possesses no greater exemption from evil consequences than to believe one’s self perfect.
Magnify some scientific error, reduce it to a system, explain heaven and earth by it, and it will be a metaphysics—in the bad sense.
Fear of chastisement, as psychologists have frequently remarked, lends a certain additional charm to the forbidden pleasure; magnify the chastisement, you heighten the charm.
O ye Mountains and Hills, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnify him forever.
O ye Priests of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise him and magnify him forever.
O ye Stars of Heaven, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnify him forever.
O ye Winds of God, bless ye the Lord: praise him, andmagnify him forever.
O ye Frost and Cold, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnify him forever.
O ye Showers and Dew, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnify him forever.
O ye Lightnings and Clouds, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnify him forever.
O ye Waters that be above the Firmament, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnify him forever.
O let the Earth bless the Lord: yea, let it praise him, and magnify him forever.
O Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnify him forever.
O ye Winter and Summer, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnify him forever.
O all ye Powers of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise him, andmagnify him forever.
O ye Wells, bless ye the Lord: praise him and magnify him forever.
O ye Sun and Moon, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnify him forever.
O ye Nights and Days, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnify him forever.
O ye Whales, and all that move in the Waters, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnify him forever.
Defn: A device to magnify sound, or direct it in a given direction in a greater volume, as a very large funnel used as an ear trumpet or as a speaking trumpet.
Archaic] O, magnifythe Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.
Simple, or Single, microscope, a single convex lens used to magnify objects placed in its focus.
To have the power of causing objects to appear larger than they really are; to increase the apparent dimensions of objects; as, some lenses magnify but little.
I wish the chemists had been more sparing who magnify their preparations.
To make glorious in thought or with the heart, by ascribing glory to; to asknowledge the excellence of; to render homage to; to magnify in worship; to adore.
To exaggerate; as, tomagnify a loss or a difficulty.
St. Paul chose to magnifyhis office when ill men conspired to lessen it.
Inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office.
With all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious name.
Now in place of each ship, imagine a hundred ships, and magnify their distances from each other to the vast distances that the stars are from each other, and all in motion in two great streams as before.
It is all-important, never more so than now, that the people should magnify the law.
The ideas of Christian Theology are too simple for eloquence, too sacred for fiction, and too majestic for ornament; to recommend them by tropes and figures, is to magnify by a concave mirror the sidereal hemisphere.
He that could fear lest his genius had fallen upon too old a world, or too chill a climate, might consistently magnify to himself the influence of the seasons, and believe his faculties to be vigorous only half the year.
Below that figure they do not magnify enough, and above that figure they magnify too much.
His imaginative hopes were always ready to magnify by many dimensions the smallest fact which favoured them.
It was natural that report, dwelling on what it could understand rather than on what was incomprehensible, should magnify Susannah's love for Halsey.
I wrote to President Taylor that I accepted the mission and should endeavor to magnifymy calling.
You, my children, should keep in lively remembrance that you are the fruits of my obedience to the law of plural marriage--that it is your duty to honor and magnify this law as you may have opportunity.
Surely you cannot be too anxiously, nor too industriously engaged, seeking the best, the manner most useful to yourselves and mankind, to magnify your holy and sacred offices.
I repose much confidence in this brother, as one who will magnify his calling and do much towards establishing the Gospel in that country.
O may God give me learning, even language; and endue me with qualifications to magnify His name while I live.
And they of the circumcision, which believed, were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost, for they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God.
It is strongest among old patriarchal races; lingers on in feudal Europe; is to be traced even in America today in a few sporadic efforts to magnify the deeds of our ancestors.
Moreover, in the dearth of commanding traits and stirring events, there is a continual temptation to magnifythose which are petty and insignificant.
He reverences his art too highly tomagnify his own exposition of it; and when he reads what I have set down here, he will smile and shake his head, and mutter that I have divined the perfect idea in the imperfect embodiment.
