enlarge oneself

English

Verb

enlarge oneself (third-person singular simple present enlarges oneself, present participle enlarging oneself, simple past and past participle enlarged oneself)

To give free vent to speech.
- 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:
  [They] enlarged themselves with as high expressions against the government as at first

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