Meanings of aggrandise in English

His lordship argued that the five-pound qualification would increase agitation, would aggrandise radical interests.

Does the Pope want to aggrandise himself by war?

Thou shouldst, to the best of thy power, aggrandise him as thou winnest aggrandisement for thyself.

He had said, and even sworn, that he would never aggrandise the territory of the Empire!

Offices are not there for you to occupy (or be deployed to) and aggrandise yourself.

At Baieux was his episcopal stall; and he was the foremost man of all to aggrandise the king.

It is true, kings desirous of victory afflict many creatures, but after victory they advance and aggrandise all.

It's not really an art of any kind, but bullies like Bismarck like to aggrandise their generally coercive work.

He began his pontificate in splendour in 1775, and set to work at once to aggrandise his family, the Braschi.

This species of feudality is kept up to aggrandise the corporations at the ruin of towns; and the effect is visible.

O'Malley is most effective when she resists the urge to aggrandise the particular and allows the significance of her narratives simply to occur.

If you think everything about it is introduced, I remind you of what the government prefers to aggrandise every "Australia Day".

Build up and aggrandise your city, for in so doing you will gird on power like a garment, and win allies for her.

They who seek to aggrandise their fortunes by afflicting kingdoms in unscrupulous ways, very soon come to be regarded as vermin in a dead body.

She's eager to avoid the cliches of sweaty torsos and self-aggrandising story-lines.

Achieving virtuous or vicious acts, one brings them up and aggrandises them.