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English
Etymology
From Middle English in large, from Old French enlargier. By surface analysis, in- + large.
Verb
inlarge (third-person singular simple present inlarges, present participle inlarging, simple past and past participle inlarged)
- Archaic spelling of enlarge.
c. 1587 (date written), [Thomas Kyd], The Spanish Tragedie: (Fourth Quarto), London: W W for T Pauier, , published 1602, →OCLC, Act III:This that I did vvas for a policie, / To ſmooth and keepe the murther ſecret, / VVhich at a nine daies vvonder being ore-blovvne, / My gentle ſiſter vvill I novv inlarge.
1697, [John Pollexfen], A Discourse of Trade and Coyn, London, pages 109–110:[…] but if Two Millions, or what elſe may be thought a Convenient Stock, ſhould be underwrit, then there will be no difficulty in Carrying on the Trade, without any Intermiſſion, or danger, than what may be feared by the changing of Committees now Annually made, and the increaſe of the Stock, as it will ſatisfie the Complaints that ariſe from the Contraction of the ſaid Trade, and difficulties of Admiſſion into it, ſo it will occaſion the inlarging thereof; […]
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