[f. ENLARGE v. + -ING1.]
1. The action of ENLARGE v. in its various senses.
1494. Fabyan, V. xcxv. 89. He releuyd greatly the poore people, by enlargyng of his liberall almes. Ibid., VI. clxxxvii. 189. For the enlargynge of the Kyng.
1553. Eden, Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.), 37. They fyght not for the enlargeing of theyr dominion.
1656. H. More, Antid. Ath., II. ii. (1712), 41. The inlarging of our Understanding by so ample Experience.
a. 1718. Parnell, To Ld. Bolingbroke, Wks. (1810), 413. Where mean acrostics … control The great enlargings of the boundless soul.
1843. Browning, Blot ’Scutcheon, I. iii. Thorold’s enlargings, Austin’s brevities.
attrib. 1875. Ure, Dict. Arts, II. 729. The hammer used for beating the first packet [of gold-leaf] is called the flat, or the enlarging hammer.
2. concr. An expansion, swelling.
1562. Turner, Herbal, II. (1568), 111. The herbe … healeth the enlarginges of wind or puls veynes.
