v. Obs. [a. OFr. alargir to enlarge, f. à to + large LARGE.]
1. trans. To make larger, increase; give largely.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Serm. (1879), I. xxxv. 93. Herfore preyden disciplis to alarge hem bileve. Ibid., Gen. xxxii. 12. Alarge my seed as the grauel of the see.
1395. ? Purvey, Remonst. (1851), 51. To alarge othir mayntene his seculer lordshipe.
a. 1560. Chaucer’s Dream, 156. Such part in their nativity Was them alarged of beauty.
2. intr. (OFr. s’alargir.) To extend oneself.
1382. Wyclif, Ps. v. 1. In tribulacioun thou hast alargid to me. [1388 Thou spraddest out to me. Cf. OFr. (in Godef.) En ma tribulatiun il s’est alargi a mi. Vulg. In tribulatione dilatasti mihi.]
