Also 7 inlarger. [f. ENLARGE v. + -ER.] He who or that which enlarges.

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  1.  In senses of ENLARGE 1–5.

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1545.  Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. (1548), Luke, 191 a. See ye what maner ministers and enlargers of his dominion … he chose out for the nons.

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1612.  Brerewood, Lang. & Relig., xxi. (1614), 151. Iacobus … was in his time a mighty inlarger of Eutiches sect, and maintainer of his opinion.

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1660.  Jer. Taylor, Duct. Dubit., III. iii. § 4. If religion be the … enlarger of kingdoms.

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1774.  T. West, Antiq. Furness (1805), 424. The right reverend and very learned enlarger of Camden’s Britannia.

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1846.  Grote, Greece, I. xxi. II. 269. The author of the Odyssey is not identical either with the author of the Achilleis or his enlargers.

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  † 2.  One who sets (a person) at large. Obs.

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1611.  Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xvi. § 8. Whereby the maine drift of his enlargers was not much aduanced.

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