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AG'GRANDIZE, v.t. [L. ad and grandis. See Grand.]
1. To make great or greater in power, rank or honor; to exalt, as, to aggrandize a family.
2. To enlarge, applied to things; as, to aggrandize our conceptions. It seems to be never applied to the bulk or dimensions of material bodies.

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