magnoperate
动词 v.
英 /mæɡˈnɒpəɹeɪt/
美 /mæɡˈnɑpəɹeɪt/
英文释义
动词 v.
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To magnify the greatness of (someone or something); to exalt.
— [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.
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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”).
— Your dwarf of a letter came yesterday. That is right;—keep to your 'magnum opus'—magnoperate away.
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To act grandly.
— Meanwhile you cannot help liking his [Herbert Beerbohm Tree's] Antony—which, of course, is quite the right frame of mind. There is something large and liberal and genial in the man; you are made to feel that, in [Lord] Byron's phrase, he is used to "magnoperating."
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词源 1
PIE word
*méǵh₂s
From Latin magnopere (“exceedingly, greatly; earnestly, vehemently”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), modelled after operate, further from the univerbation of magnō (ablative neuter singular of magnus (“big, large; (figuratively) great, important”)) + opere (ablative singular of opus (“labour, toil, accomplishment, work; work (of art, literature, etc.)”)), literally “with great zeal, effort, work done”, ultimately from the roots of Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“big, great”)) and Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep- (“to toil, work; to make; ability; force”)).
*méǵh₂s
From Latin magnopere (“exceedingly, greatly; earnestly, vehemently”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), modelled after operate, further from the univerbation of magnō (ablative neuter singular of magnus (“big, large; (figuratively) great, important”)) + opere (ablative singular of opus (“labour, toil, accomplishment, work; work (of art, literature, etc.)”)), literally “with great zeal, effort, work done”, ultimately from the roots of Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“big, great”)) and Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep- (“to toil, work; to make; ability; force”)).
词源 2
From magnum opus + -ate (verb-forming suffix), in this sense coined by the English poet Lord Byron (1788–1824): see the 1821 quotation, further from Latin magnum opus, from magnum (nominative neuter singular of magnus (“big, large; (figuratively) great, important”)) + opus (“accomplishment, work; work (of art, literature, etc.)”); see further at etymology 1.
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