- Increase in wealth or prestige - Increase prestige - Make greater - To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to
aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress. - To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or
wealth; -- applied to persons, countries, etc. - To make appear great or greater; to exalt. - To increase or become great.
- Enlarge - Make appear larger - Make something look bigger - To make great, or greater; to increase the dimensions
of; to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the
microscope magnifies the object by a thousand diameters. - To increase the importance of; to augment the esteem or
respect in which one is held. - To praise highly; to land; to extol. - To exaggerate; as, to magnify a loss or a difficulty.
- Offshoot - River feeder - Stream flowing into a larger one - Paying tribute to another, either from compulsion, as an
acknowledgment of submission, or to secure protection, or for the
purpose of purchasing peace. - Hence, subject; subordinate; inferior. - Paid in tribute. - Yielding supplies of any kind; serving to form or make
up, a greater object of the same kind, as a part, branch, etc.;
contributing; as, the Ohio has many tributary streams, and is itself
tributary to the Mississippi.
- One of a class of amorphous nitrogenous principles,
containing, as a rule, a small amount of sulphur; an albuminoid, as
blood fibrin, casein of milk, etc. Proteids are present in nearly all
animal fluids and make up the greater part of animal tissues and
organs. They are also important constituents of vegetable tissues. See
2d Note under Food.