What's the difference between extol and magnificate?

Extol


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To place on high; to lift up; to elevate.
  • (v. t.) To elevate by praise; to eulogize; to praise; to magnify; as, to extol virtue; to extol an act or a person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Instead, most of the eulogies now being written in his memory are extolling him as a man of peace.
  • (2) State intervention was the right policy, but bankers and their shareholders should have been left to enjoy the downside of the free markets whose merits they had extolled for so long.
  • (3) He extolls the virtues of the new Star Trek movie(!)
  • (4) But he went further than just tolling its end: he extolled its demise.
  • (5) Only human strawman Ann Coulter could find any equivalency between extoling the virtues of one’s genitals and claiming someone else’s as yours to do with as you please – and in any case, that line (from Feeling Myself) was delivered by Nicki Minaj.
  • (6) This thread of social Christianity extolled a reconciliation of the church and the republic in the name of a third way between capitalism and socialism.
  • (7) He has a well known soft spot for Middlemarch, and spent a good chunk of a speech at Brighton College in May extolling the virtues of teaching Shakespeare, Dickens, Tennyson, Blake and Eliot to primary pupils.
  • (8) Superstars where they attended college, hopefuls suddenly find themselves in unusual situations – as lambs in the middle of an Indianapolis field, being poked, prodded, measured and assessed; then as masters and conquerors, listening to famous GMs and coaches playing salesmen and extolling the virtues of their organisation.
  • (9) After a year in which the sale of Channel 5 and All3Media (the biggest remaining UK-owned independent producer) to US media conglomerates has raised questions about the increasing American dominance of British commercial TV, Lee is perhaps unsurprisingly keen to extol the virtues of the industry’s ever closer transatlantic ties.
  • (10) There is even a section on the museum’s website extolling the virtues of sketching, summoning the wise words of Le Corbusier.
  • (11) I tell Specter how proudly Remnick told me of his triumph in the Hackathlon, and that I wondered afterwards what he meant by extolling such bare-faced bad writing.
  • (12) "The rash of public offices in our towns and cities says more about our desire to extol the brands of our organisations than it does about our commitment to better services for clients and citizens," he said.
  • (13) Therefore politicians like me, who think this could be the biggest idea for teaching for generations, may extol the virtues and possible roles of a potential professional body but cannot, however much we would like to, "pledge" to set one up, or anything about it or the roles it could perform as part of a manifesto.
  • (14) Mindfulness, the practice of sitting still and focusing on your breath and thoughts, has surged in popularity over the last few years, with a boom in apps, online courses, books and articles extolling its virtues.
  • (15) During a recent appearance on BBC's Question Time , Michael Gove, the secretary of state for education, extolled the importance of encouraging creativity in schools.
  • (16) I cringe when I hear our political leadership deliver yet another speech extolling a commitment to fighting extremism, yet in almost the time it takes to draw their next breath, go on to announce cuts to community services groups, the kind of organisations whose roles are vital in addressing the risk factors that leave one vulnerable to extremism.
  • (17) A straight couple extolled friends as models of evangelism, because they invited their son’s gay partner home for Christmas.
  • (18) China is meanwhile extolling the virtues of a free trade area in Asia Pacific .
  • (19) An honest republican ought to be prepared to extol the merits of the republican system.
  • (20) In vain, I try to extol the wonders of putting your cross in the requisite box.

Magnificate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To magnify or extol.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Biological magnification of insecticides and PCB's occurred in both lakes.
  • (2) We studied bobbed loci at different magnification steps, analysing their behaviour through the reversion process and the way they carry out a second round of magnification.
  • (3) The hands of 29 chronic dialysis patients were evaluated every 3 months for subperiosteal, intracortical, and endosteal bone resorption using fine-detail radiography and optical magnification.
  • (4) When a meridional-size lens is used to provide magnification in the horizonal meridan for one eye the resulting stereopsis distortion is readily accounted for in the terms of the binocular disparity caused by changed angular relations.
  • (5) Correcting for radiographic magnification, the ERCP measurement was more than twice that obtained by ultrasonography.
  • (6) While the present study demonstrates the usefulness of computer-aided microscopy for analysis of low-magnification images, the same descriptors (area and IOD) should be useful in quantifying data from a variety of objects (cells, nuclei, etc.)
  • (7) After 48 hours in culture, all specimens were examined at 6x magnification for defects in the facial arches, head fold, and neural tube fusion.
  • (8) Because these features are best appreciated at increased arteriographic magnification, further high resolution studies will be necessary to better understand their importance.
  • (9) Material, obtained by a rigorous three-stage sampling procedure from five normal rat livers, is systematically subjected to this analysis at four levels of magnification.
  • (10) The advantages of this technique are: the abdominal aorta of rats proximally to renal arteries is characterized by a well developed adventitia and its caliber is double of that of infrarenal aorta; b) the left renal vein is more easily access of caval vein with similar caliber; c) the use of left renal vein and the widening of pulmonary artery permits a wide anastomosis; d) the so obtained heart position is better than the transversal one; e) the calibers of all anastomosis is so wide to permit the realization of this technique without extreme optical magnification.
  • (11) Ten-year-old condensation silicone elastomer impressions and epoxy replicas made in 1979 were compared in a scanning electron microscope at 5 kV with different magnifications up to x200.
  • (12) An iterative method is presented which solves for the radius of curvature despite the variation in magnification.
  • (13) Impalement of identified principal cells from the serosal side with single-barrelled conventional or double-barrelled Cl(-)-sensitive microelectrodes was performed at x500 magnification.
  • (14) An angiographic system capable of simultaneous biplane stereoscopic magnification cerebral angiography was evaluated.
  • (15) Of the various metals and alloys tested for use in its construction, brass produced the smallest NMR artifact with minimal magnification.
  • (16) Conventional and magnification angiography were performed on 34 occasions in 31 patients with renal allografts.
  • (17) Low-magnification electron micrographs showed chains containing up to 58 (median = 21-25) electron-dense particles that were held together by intimately attached organic material.
  • (18) (N is the inverse normalized "cortical magnification factor").
  • (19) The microscope had a higher power (eight or ten times) magnification.
  • (20) The specimens were categorized into 6 groups based on numbers of leukocytes (PMN's) and squamous epithelial cells (SEC's) observed at low magnification (X 100).

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