Magnoperate

Quick meaning: Magnoperate is a verb meaning (transitive) To magnify the greatness of (someone or something); to exalt.

Meaning

(transitive) To magnify the greatness of (someone or something); to exalt.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To act grandly.
2. (intransitive, rare) To work on one's magnum opus (“great or important work of art, literature, or music, a masterpiece; best, most popular, or most renowned achievement of an artist or author, representing their major life effort”).

Example Sentences

Your dwarf of a letter came yesterday. That is right;—keep to your 'magnum opus'—magnoperate away.

[…] Michael Redgrave and Peggy Ashcroft retired to Stratford-on-Avon, where they magnoperated in “The Merchant of Venice," "Antony and Cleopatra" and "King Lear"; […]

Mr. Cochran magnoperated last night at the Palace, Manchester, and yesterday afternoon the dramatic critic of this paper minoperated at a horse-show in a field adjacent to Manchester.

[A]fter-ages may rightly admire what noble Mecœnas it was that ſo inchayned the aſpiring wits of this vnderſtanding age to his only cenſure, which will not a little magnoperate the ſplendor of your well knowne Honour, to theſe ſucceeding times.

Word Forms

• magnoperates
• magnoperating
• magnoperated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include magnificate, magnify, magnifie, aggrandize, remagnify, greaten.

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