Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Magnetometer

Mag′net‐om″e‐ter (?), n. [Magneto- + -meter: cf. F. magnétomètre.] (Physics) An instrument for measuring the intensity of magnetic forces; also, less frequently, an instrument f...

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Magnetometric

Mag′net‐o‐met″ric (?), a. Pertaining to, or employed in, the measurement of magnetic forces; obtained by means of a magnetometer; as, magnetometric instruments; magnetometric me...

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Magnetomotive

Mag′net‐o‐mo″tive (?), a. [Magneto- + motive, a.] (Elec.) Pertaining to, or designating, a force producing magnetic flux, analogous to electromotive force, and equal to the magn...

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Magnetomotor

Mag′net‐o‐mo″tor (?), n. A voltaic series of two or more large plates, producing a great quantity of electricity of low tension, and hence adapted to the exhibition of electro-m...

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Magnetotherapy

Mag′net‐o‐ther″a‐py (?), n.(Med.) The treatment of disease by the application of magnets to the surface of the body.

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Magnifiable

Mag″ni‐fi′a‐ble, a. [From Magnify.] Such as can be magnified, or extolled.

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Magnific

{ Mag‐nif″ic (?), Mag‐nif″ic‐al (?), } a. [L. magnificus; magnus great + facere to make: cf. F. magnifique. See Magnitude, Fact. and cf. Magnificent.] Grand; splendid; illustrio...

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Magnificat

‖Mag‐nif″i‐cat (?), n. The song of the Virgin Mary, Luke i. 46; — so called because it commences with this word in the Vulgate.

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Magnificate

Mag‐nif″i‐cate (?), v. t. [L. magnificatus, p. p. of magnificare.] To magnify or extol. Marston.

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Magnification

Mag′ni‐fi‐ca″tion (?), n. The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration.

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Magnificence

Mag‐nif″i‐cence (?), n. [F. magnificence, L. magnificentia. See Magnific.] The act of doing what is magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent. Acts xix. 27. “Then c...

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Magnificent

Mag‐nif″i‐cent (?), a. [See Magnificence.] 1. Doing grand things; admirable in action; displaying great power or opulence, especially in building, way of living, and munificence...

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Magnificently

Mag‐nif″i‐cent‐ly, adv. In a Magnificent manner.

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Magnifico

Mag‐nif″i‐co (?), n.; pl.Magnificoes (#). [It. See Magnific.] 1. A grandee or nobleman of Venice; — so called in courtesy. Shak.2. A rector of a German university.

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Magnifier

Mag″ni‐fi′er (?), n. One who, or that which, magnifies.

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Magnify

Mag″ni‐fy (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Magnified (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Magnifying (?).] [OE. magnifien, F. magnifier, L. magnificare. See Magnific.] 1. To make great, or greater; to in...

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Magnify (2)

Mag″ni‐fy, v. i. 1. 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 littl...

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Magniloquence

Mag‐nil″o‐quence (?), n. [L. magniloquentia.] The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.

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Magniloquent

Mag‐nil″o‐quent (?), a. [L. magnus great + loquens, -entis, p. pr. of loqui to speak. See Magnitude, Loquacious.] Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid ...

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Magniloquous

Mag‐nil″o‐quous (?), a. [L. magniloquus.] Magniloquent.

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Magnitude

Mag″ni‐tude (?), n. [L. magnitudo, from magnus great. See Master, and cf. Maxim.] 1. Extent of dimensions; size; — applied to things that have length, breadth, and thickness.Con...

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Magnolia

Mag‐no″li‐a (?), n. [NL. Named after Pierre Magnol, professor of botany at Montpellier, France, in the 17th century.] (Bot.) A genus of American and Asiatic trees, with aromatic...

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Magnoliaceous

Mag‐no′li‐a″ceous (?), a.(Bot.) Pertaining to a natural order (Magnoliaceæ) of trees of which the magnolia, the tulip tree, and the star anise are examples.

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Magnum

‖Mag″num (?), n. [Neut. sing. of L. magnus great.] 1. A large wine bottle.They passed the magnum to one another freely. Sir W. Scott.2. (Anat.) A bone of the carpus at the base ...

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Magot

Mag″ot (?), n.(Zoöl.) The Barbary ape.

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Magot-pie

Mag″ot–pie′ (?), n. A magpie. Shak.

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Magpie

Mag″pie (?), n. [OE. & Prov. E. magot pie, maggoty pie, fr. Mag, Maggot, equiv. to Margaret, and fr. F. Marquerite, and common name of the magpie. Marguerite is fr. L. margarita...