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judice, God could.no way have been bound to requite man’s 
labours in to large and ample manner as human felicity doth 
import ; in as much as the dignity of this exceedeth lb far 
the other’s value. Hooker. —Magnificent; fplendid. Dif- 
fufive; not contracted ; as, An ample narrative, that is, not 
an epitome. 
AM'PLBNESS, f. The quality of being ample; large- 
nefs; fplendour. —Impollible it is for a perfon of my con¬ 
dition to produce any thing in proportion either to the 
ampknfs'oi the body you reprefent, or of the places.you 
bear. South. 
AMPLEPU'IS, atown in the department of Rhoneand 
Loire. It is celebrated for its wines, and is lixteen miles 
eait of Rouanne. 
To AM'PLIATE, v. a. [amplio, Lat. ] To enlarge; to 
make greater; to extend.—He fnall look Upon it, not to 
traduce or extenuate, but to explain and dilucidate, to add 
and ampliate. Brown. 
AMPL 1 A'TION,yi Enlargement; exaggeration; ex- 
tenlion. Diffufenefs.—The obfcitrity of the fubjecl, and 
the prejudice and prepoffedion of mod readers, may plead 
excufe for any ampliations or repetitipns that may be found, 
whilii I labour to exprefs myfelf plain and full. Holder. 
Onamedalof the emperor Antoninus Pius, we find the 
title Ampliator avium given him, on account of his having 
extended theyz^ civitatis, or right of citizenfhip, to many 
dates and people before excluded from that privilege. In 
effect, it is generally fuppofed to have been this prince 
that made the famous condilution, wliereby all the fu'ejects' 
of the empire were made citizens of Rome. 
Ampliation, in Roman antiquity, was the deferring 
to pafs fentence in certain caufes. This the judge did, by 
pronouncing the word amplius-, or by writing the letters 
N. L. for non liquet ; thereby lignifying, that, asthecaufe 
was not clear, it would be necedary to bring further evidence. 
To AMPLI'FICATE, v. a. [amplijico , Lat.] To en¬ 
large; to fpread out; to amplify. 
AMPL 1 FIC A'TION, f. [amplification, Fr. amplficatio, 
Lat.] Enlargement; extenlion. 
Amp-lification, in rhetoric, part of a difeourfe or 
fpeech, wherein a crime is aggravated, a praife or com¬ 
mendation heightened, or a narration enlarged, by an enu¬ 
meration of circumdances; fo as to excite the proper 
emotions in the fouls of the auditors. Such is the paflage 
in Virgil, where, indead of faying merely that Turnus 
died, he amplifies the circumdances of his death: 
—AJl illi folvuntur frigore membra, 
Vilaque cum gcnilu fugit indignata Jub umbras. 
The maders of eloquence make amplification to be the foul 
of difeourfe. See Oratory. 
AM'PLIFIER.yi One that enlarges any thing; one 
that exaggerates; one that reprefents any thing with a 
large difplay of the bed circumdances; it being ufually 
taken in a good fenfe. 
To AM'PLIFY, v. a. [amplifier , Fr.] To enlarge; to 
increafe any material fubdance, or object of fenfe. To 
enlarge, or extend any thing incorporeal. To exaggerate 
any thing; to enlarge it by the manner of reprefentation 
To improve by new additions.— I feel age advancing, and 
my health is infufficient to increafe and amplify thefe re¬ 
marks, to confirm and improve thefe rules, and to illu¬ 
minate the feveral pages. Watts. 
To Amplify, v. n. To fpeak largely in many words; 
to. lay one’s felf out in diffufion. It is ufed frequently with 
the particle on .— When you affect to amplify on the former 
branches of a difeourfe, you will often lay a r.ecefiity up¬ 
on yourfelf of contracting the latter, and prevent yourfelf 
in the mod important part of your dedgn. Watts .— To 
form large or pompous reprefentations. — Homer amplifies, 
rot invents ; and, as there was really a people called Cyclo- 
peans, fo they might be men of great datu re, or giants. Pope. 
AM'PLITUD E,/i [amplitude , Fr. amplitudo, Lat.] Ex¬ 
tent. — Whatever I look upon, within the amplitude of hea¬ 
ven and earth,, is evidence of human ignorance. Glartville, 
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—Largcncfs; greatnefs. —Men fliould learn how fevere a 
thing the true mqiiifition of nature is, and accudoin them- 
felves, by the light of particulars; to enlarge their minds 
to the amplitude of the world, and not reduce the world to 
the narrownefs of their minds. Bacon. —Capacity ; extent 
of intellectual faculties. Splendour; grandeur; dignity, 
Copioufncfs; abundance.—In the great frame of king¬ 
doms and commonwealths, it is in the power of princes, or 
edates, to add amplitude and greatnefs to their kingdoms. 
Bacon. 
Amplitude, in aftronomy, is an arch of the horizon, 
intercepted between, the true end or welt point, and the 
centre of the fun or a dar at its. riling or fetting.: fo’that 
the amplitude is of two kinds;, ortive or eadern, and occi- 
duous or wedein. Each of thefe amplitudes is alfo either 
northern or fouthern, according as the point of riung or 
fetting is in the northern or fouthern part of the horizon: 
and the complement of the amplitude, or the arch of dis¬ 
tance of the point of riling or lotting, from the north or 
fouth point of the horizon, is the azimuth. The ampli¬ 
tude is of ufe in navigation, to find the variation of the 
compafs or magnetic needle. And the rule to find it is 
this: As the coline of the latitude is to radius, fo is the 
line of the fun’s or fiar’s declination to the line of the am¬ 
plitude. So in the latitude of London, viz. 51 0 31', when 
the fun’s declination is 23°23'; then 
Cos. 51° 31'the lat. - - —9 - 79.i99c>7 
Sin. 23 28 the decl. - -j- 9 ■ 6oo n S1 
Sin. 39 47 the ampl. - - 9-8061274 
That is, the fun rifes or lets 39 0 47' from the ead or wed 
point to the north or fouth, according as the declination is 
north or fouth.. 
Magnelical Amplitude, is an arch of the horizon, con¬ 
tained between the fun or dar, at the riling or fetting, and 
the magnetical ead or wed point of the horizon, pointed 
out by the magnetical compafs, or the amplitude or azi¬ 
muth compafs. And the difference between this magne¬ 
tical amplitude, fo cbferved, and the true amplitude, as 
computed in the lad article, is the variation of the com- 
pafs. So if, for indance, the magnetical amplitude be 
obferved, by the compafs, to be 6i° 47', at the time when 
it is computed to be - 39 47, 
then the difference - 22 o is the variation wed, 
AMPLI'VAGOUS, ad]. [an}plivagus, Lat.] That wan¬ 
ders wide, or far and near ; that dretches out far, having 
a large fcope. 
AM'PLY, adv. [ample, Lat.] Largely; liberally. At 
large; without referve: 
At return 
Of him fo lately promis’d to thy aid, 
The woman’s feed, obfeurely then foretold, 
Now amplier known, thy Saviour and thy Lord. Milton , 
At large ; copioufiy ; with a diffufive detail.—Some parts 
of a poem require to be amply written, and with all the 
force and elegance of words; others mud be cad into Iha- 
dows ; that is, paided over in lilence, or but faintly touched. 
Dry den. 
AMPSA'GA, a river of ancient Numidia. 
AMPSAN'CTI Vallis,. jpr Ampsancti Lacus, a 
cave or lake in the heart of the Hirpini, or Principato 
Ultra, near the city Tricento. It is now called Mcfjlua, 
from Mephitis, the goddefs of ftench, who had a temple 
there. The Moffettais thus deferibed by Mr. Sw inburn : 
“We were led into a narrow valley, ex tendinga confiderablc 
way to the fouth-wed, and preffed in on both. Tides by high 
ridges thickly covered with copfes of oak. The bottom 
of the dell is bare and arid : in the low^d part, and elofe 
under one of the hills, is an oval pond of muddy alb-co¬ 
loured witter, not above fifty feet in diameter : it boils up 
in feveral places with great force in irregular fits, which are 
always preceded by a hiding found. The water was feveral 
times (pouted up as high as our heads in a diagonal direction, 
a whirl-pool being formed round the tube, like a bafon, 
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