magnoperate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæɡˈnɒpəɹeɪt/
ipa: /mæɡˈnɑpəɹeɪt/
Forms: form: magnoperates
form: magnoperating
form: magnoperated
form: magnoperated
Etymology: PIE word
 *méǵh₂s
From Latin magnopere (“exceedingly, greatly; earnestly, vehemently”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), modelled after operate, further from the univerbation of magnō (ablative neuter singular of magnus (“big, large; (figuratively) great, important”)) + opere (ablative singular of opus (“labour, toil, accomplishment, work; work (of art, literature, etc.)”)), literally “with great zeal, effort, work done”, ultimately from the roots of Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“big, great”)) and Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep- (“to toil, work; to make; ability; force”)).
Senses: examples: text: [A]fter-ages may rightly admire what noble Mecœnas it was that ſo inchayned the aſpiring wits of this vnderſtanding age to his only cenſure, which will not a little magnoperate the ſplendor of your well knowne Honour, to theſe ſucceeding times.
ref: 1610, Arthur Hopton, “To the Right Honovrable, Robert Earle of Salisbvry, [...]”, in Bacvlvm Geodæticvm, sive Viaticvm. Or The Geodeticall Staffe, […], London: […] Nicholas Okes for Simon Waterson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To magnify the greatness of (someone or something); to exalt.
examples: text: Meanwhile you cannot help liking his [Herbert Beerbohm Tree's] Antony—which, of course, is quite the right frame of mind. There is something large and liberal and genial in the man; you are made to feel that, in [Lord] Byron's phrase, he is used to "magnoperating."
ref: 1906 December 28, “His Majesty’s Theatre. ‘Antony and Cleopatra.’ [theatre review]”, in The Times, number 38,215, London: George Edward Wright, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 6:
text: At the ris of an anti-climax I will add that another mark of [Edward] Elgar's greatness is that he can do little things and do them well. He has "magnoperated" with the best, but like the other masters he has known how to unbend, and some of his music has become popular in the best sense. It is not given to many musicians to find a song of theirs become, as "Land of Hope and Glory" has, an accepted unofficial national anthem.
ref: 1921 March, George Sampson, “Sir Edward Elgar”, in The Bookman, volume LIX, number 354, London: Hodder and Stoughton […], →OCLC, page 220, column 2:
text: He [the historian] must not write of the theatre as though it were an art-form magnoperating in the void. He must not attempt to judge it as he would a free art trying to express itself in the best possible way and with everybody anxious to help.
ref: 1926, James Agate, “Not a Free Art”, in A Short View of the English Stage, 1900–1926, London: Herbert Jenkins […], →OCLC, page 47:
text: Mr. Cochran magnoperated last night at the Palace, Manchester, and yesterday afternoon the dramatic critic of this paper minoperated at a horse-show in a field adjacent to Manchester.
ref: 1934 September 2, James Agate, “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Critic”, in More First Nights, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., published 1937, →OCLC, page 36:
text: [Charles Prestwich] Scott in the Manchester Guardian and [Henry William] Massingham in the Daily Chronicle (and, later, in the Nation) and [John Alfred] Spender in that "old sea-green incorruptible," the Westminster Gazette, and [Alfred George] Gardiner in the Daily News "magnoperated," in the late Mr. James Agate's beautiful phrase, as no "foursome" had ever been privileged to do.
ref: 1948 August, C. L. R. Sastri, “Scholarship in Journalism”, in The Modern Review, volume LXXXXIV, number 2 (number 500 overall), Calcutta, West Bengal: Nibaran Chandra Das, Prabasi Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, section VII, page 138, column 1:
text: […] Michael Redgrave and Peggy Ashcroft retired to Stratford-on-Avon, where they magnoperated in “The Merchant of Venice," "Antony and Cleopatra" and "King Lear"; […]
ref: 1953, Louis Kronenberger, editor, The Best Plays of 1952–1953 (The Burns Mantle Yearbook), New York, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 38:
glosses: To act grandly.
Derived terms: word: magnoperation
word: magnoperator
alt: apparently all hapax legomena
word: magnoperous