majorare

majorare [LL] 1 to make bigger or larger, to increase. ~o, -as, i. magnum facere Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 333; to make grette, grossare, magnificare, ~are CathA. 2 to increase in size or extent: a (living thing); b (matter); c (artefact). a in septimo vero mense fetus ~atus [Trevisa: is more] et ideo majus nutrimentum requirit Bart. Angl. III 24.  b unde calor secundum tres dimensiones materiam illam augere potest, et ~are, vel extendere Quaest. Salern. B 267.  c ut augeatur juramentum ‥ et ~etur judiciale ferrum (Quad.) GAS 389. 3 to increase in length or duration; b (mus.). in toto tempore quo sol movetur a principio Arietis ‥ usque in finem Virginis ~antur dies supra noctes Sacrob. Sph. 102; si fuerit corpus tenebrosum equale corpori luminoso non dicitur umbra ~ari vel minorari propter accessum vel recessum corporis tenebrosi a corpore luminoso J. Blund An. 137; per illos undecim dies ~atur etas lune in primo die sequentis anni Bacon Tert. 288.  b nec ultra debet longa ~ari Haudlo 116; nec ultra debet longa ~ari, quia sicut longa simplex habet in valore novem semibreves minores et non plures Hauboys 266. 4 to increase in number (in quot, of quarterings in a coat of arms). heredes sua arma portantes possunt sua arma ~are vel minorare cum concilio regis haraldorum Bad. Aur. 130. 5 to increase in degree or scale, intensify. pena eadem nec ~ata nec minorata Wycl. Act. 33.