Word Meanings - GREATEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make great; to aggrandize; to cause to increase in size; to expand. A minister's is to greaten and exalt . Ken.

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• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• EXPAND
  To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy. Dryden.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• EXALTMENT
  Exaltation. Barrow.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• MINISTERY
  See MILTON
• INCREASE
  The period of increasing light, or luminous phase; the waxing; -- said of the moon. Seeds, hair, nails, hedges, and herbs will grow soonest if set or cut in the increase of the moon. Bacon. Increase twist, the twixt of a rifle groove in which the
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• INCREASEMENT
  Increase. Bacon.
• EXPANDER
  Anything which causes expansion esp. a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.
• AGGRANDIZE
  1. To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress. 2. To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; -- applied to persons, countries, etc. His scheme for aggrandizing his son. Prescott.
• EXALTATE
  Exercising its highest influence; -- said of a planet. Chaucer.
• MINISTERIALLY
  In a ministerial manner; in the character or capacity of a minister.
• GREATLY
  1. In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16. 2. Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously. By a high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden.
• GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER
  A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREATEN
  To become large; to dilate. My blue eyes greatening in the looking-glass. Mrs. Browning.
• EXALTATION
  The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property. (more info) 1. The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation. Wondering at my flight, and change To this
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT
  The aggrandizement of one's self.
• SUPEREXALTATION
  Elevation above the common degree. Holyday.
• UNCAUSED
  Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter.
• UNDERMINISTER
  To serve, or minister to, in a subordinate relation. Wyclif.
• SUPEREXALT
  To exalt to a superior degree; to exalt above others. Barrow.
• ADMINISTER
  To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor. Syn. -- To manage; conduct; minister; supply; dispense; give out; distribute; furnish. (more info) 1. To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct