v. trans. To render colossal.

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1808.  W. Taylor, in Monthly Mag., XXVI. 453. The exaggerations of mysticism sometimes caricature what they strive to colossalize.

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1875.  Emerson, Lett. & Soc. Aims, Quot. & Orig., Wks. (Bohn), III. 221. Owing his fame to his effigy colossalized through the lens of John Wilson.

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