1. Increased, widened, dilated, extended; also fig. free from narrowness, liberal.
1599. Thynne, Animadv., Ded. 3. The enlarged contynuance of Youre honorable fauour.
1674. N. Mather, in Owen, Holy Spirit (1693), Pref. 2. Abundant Cause of Enlarged Thankfulness.
1754. Richardson, Grandison (1781), V. xxxi. 206. His enlarged heart can rejoice in the happiness of his friends.
1790. Burke, Fr. Rev., 63. More sober minds, and more enlarged understandings.
1868. Freeman, Norm. Conq. (1876), II. vii. 109. A sinner for whom the most enlarged charity could hardly plead.
2. Liberated, set free.
1645. Milton, Tetrach. (1851), 155. Som delightfull intermissions, wherein the enlarg’d soul may leav off a while her severe schooling.
1886. Besant, Childr. Gibeon, II. xxxii. The enlarged captive.
Hence † Enlargedly adv. in an enlarged manner; a. with extended meaning; b. with free utterance. † Enlargedness, the state or condition of being enlarged in heart, speech, etc.
1625. Bp. Mountagu, App. Cæsar., II. vi. 172. Iustification is taken … enlargedly, for that Act of God [etc.].
1655. Gurnall, Chr. in Arm., ix. § 2 (1669), 105/1. Thou hearest others, how enlargedly they pray.
1642. G. Hughes, Serm., To Rdr. If, of truth and enlargednesse of heart to Christ, [etc.].
1646. Lilburne & Overton, Out-cryes Oppr. Commons (ed. 2), 9. So say we in the inlargednesse of our soules.
a. 1688. Bunyan, Solomon’s Temple, xviii. God’s true Gospel Church should have its enlargedness of heart still upward.
