Enlarging ppl. a.

[f. ENLARGE v. + -ING².] That enlarges, in various senses.

  Hence Enlargingly adv.

1694.  A. Van Leeuwenhoek, in Phil. Trans., XVIII. 196. A much more enlarging Microscope.

1746–7.  Hervey, Medit. (1818), 177. Your deep, prolonged, enlarging, aggravated roar.

1762–9.  Falconer, Shipwr., III. 65. While round before the enlarging wind it falls.

1765.  Blackstone, Comm., I. 87. So that this was an enlarging statute.

1856.  Emerson, Eng. Traits, Lit., Wks. (Bohn), II. 109. With patriotic and still enlarging generosity.

1882.  J. Parker, Apost. Life, I. 19. The power was to be used enlargingly.