[f. next + -ER1.] One who amplifies or enlarges.
1. One who enlarges, who adds to the extent, capacity, or dignity of anything. arch.
1546. Bale, Eng. Votaries, II. (1550), 3. Yt great cytie Rome, wherof they were the fyrst amplyfyers.
1625. trans. Camden’s Hist. Eliz., IV. (1688), 536. The Queen was always both a Favourer and an Amplifier of Essex his Honour.
2. One who enlarges or expands a statement or narrative; also, an exaggerator.
1580. Sidney, Arcadia (1622), 121. Dorilaus could need no amplifiers mouth for the highest point of prayse.
1727. Pope, Art of Sinking, 89. There are amplifiers, who can extend half a dozen thin thoughts over a whole folio.
1857. Gladstone, Oxf. Ess., 28. All the reasonings … of the amplifiers.
3. A lens that enlarges the field of vision.
1866. in Intell. Observ., No. 54. 419. Brought up to equal power by an achromatic concave amplifier in the place of the eyepiece.
