v. Obs. [f. EN-1 + GREAT a. + -EN5.] trans. To make great; to increase, aggrandize; also fig. to aggravate (an offence). Hence Engreatening vbl. sb.
c. 1614. Cornwallyes, in Gutch, Coll. Cur., I. 156. The late working of these conjunctions between them, to the engreatning of them, and peril of us.
1641. Relation Answ. Earl Strafford, 4. He had engreatned and advanced the Kings Revenues.
1681. Nevile, Plato Rediv., 186. To engreaten the King against the Interest and Liberty of their own Country.
1684. Contempl. State Man, II. x. (1699), 238. Sin is … much engreatned by the circumstances which attend it.
