magnoperate

Definitions

1. To magnify the greatness of (someone or something); to exalt.
   rare, transitive
2. To work on one's magnum opus (“great or important work of art, literature, or music, a masterpiece; best, most popular, or most renowned achievement of an artist or author, representing their major life effort”).
   intransitive, rare
3. To act grandly.
   intransitive, rare

Examples

“[A]fter-ages may rightly admire what noble Mecœnas it was that ſo inchayned the aſpiring wits of this vnderſtanding age to his only cenſure, which will not a little magnoperate the ſplendor of your well knowne Honour, to theſe ſucceeding times.”

“Meanwhile you cannot help⟳ liking his [Herbert Beerbohm Tree's] Antony—which, of course, is quite the right frame of mind⟳. There is something large and liberal and genial in the man; you are made to feel⟳ that, in [Lord] Byron's phrase, he is used to "magnoperating."”

“At the ris of an anti-climax I will add⟳ that another mark⟳ of [Edward] Elgar's greatness is that he can do little things and do them well. He has "magnoperated" with the best, but like⟳ the other masters he has known how to unbend, and some of his music has become⟳ popular in the best sense⟳. It is not given to many musicians to find⟳ a song of theirs become⟳, as "Land⟳ of Hope⟳ and Glory" has, an accepted unofficial national anthem.”

“He [the historian] must not write⟳ of the theatre as though it were an art-form magnoperating in the void. He must not attempt⟳ to judge⟳ it as he would a free art trying to express⟳ itself in the best possible way and with everybody anxious to help⟳.”

“Mr. Cochran magnoperated last⟳ night at the Palace, Manchester, and yesterday afternoon the dramatic critic of this paper minoperated at a horse-show in a field adjacent to Manchester.”

“[Charles Prestwich] Scott in the Manchester Guardian and [Henry William] Massingham in the Daily Chronicle (and, later, in the Nation) and [John Alfred] Spender in that "old sea-green incorruptible," the Westminster Gazette, and [Alfred George] Gardiner in the Daily News "magnoperated," in the late Mr. James Agate's beautiful phrase, as no "foursome" had ever been privileged to do.”

“[…] Michael Redgrave and Peggy Ashcroft retired to Stratford-on-Avon, where they magnoperated in “The Merchant of Venice," "Antony and Cleopatra" and "King Lear"; […]”

“Your dwarf of a letter came yesterday. That is right;—keep⟳ to your 'magnum opus'—magnoperate away.”

“He [David Wark Griffith] magnoperates (to use⟳ a word of Byron's), he plans in the grand style, he lives for ideas; but he is perfectly modest about it. [Quoting The Times.]”

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