AUXE'SIS, noun [Gr. increase.]
In rhetoric, a figure by which any thing is magnified too much; an increasing, or exornation, when, for amplification, a more grave and magnificent word is put for the proper word.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.