Some others would ampliate and enrich their native tongue with more vocables, which also I commend, if it be aptly and wittily assayed. From Wordnik.com. [Early Theories of Translation] Reference
The freshest specimens have the griseous margin of the elytra, which parts from the base under the shoulder, obliquely and angularly ampliate interiorly towards the middle, where it reaches the second stria. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
Similarly, ‘must’ ampliates for possible supposita, for ‘A must be B’ means ‘It is not possible that A not be B’; but contradictories must clearly ampliate in the same way, and ‘It is possible that A not be B’ ampliates for possibilia. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval Theories: Properties of Terms] Reference
Just as the past tense ampliates the subject to include past as well as present supposita, modal verbs ampliate the subject to possible supposita, as do verbs such as ‘I understand’, ‘I believe’, and indeed, notes Albert of Saxony, verbal nouns ending in ‘-bile’: ‘possible’, ‘audible’, ‘credible’, ‘capable of laughter’ and so on. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval Theories: Properties of Terms] Reference
And shall only take notice of such whose experimental and judicious knowledge shall be employed, not to traduce or extenuate, but to explain and dilucidate, to add and ampliate, according to the laudable custom of the ancients in their sober promotions of learning. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation] Reference
At this point I construct what I hope is an argument Kâtibî would be happy with: If every J is possibly B, and every B is necessarily A, it doesn't follow that every J actually becomes B such that it is necessarily A. Kâtibî does not ampliate the subject term to the possible (so that it would be understood as every possible B is necessarily A), nor does he read each proposition as being embedded in a necessity operator. From Wordnik.com. [Arabic and Islamic Philosophy of Language and Logic] Reference
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