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magnoperate, v. rare.|mægˈnɒpəreɪt|
[Two formations: (1) f. L. magnopere greatly (short for magnō opere) + -ate3; (2) f. L. magn-us great + oper-, opus work: after operate.]
†1. trans. To make greater. Obs.
1610Hopton Baculum Geod. Ep. Ded. (1614), Which will not a little magnoperate the splendour of your well knowne Honour, to these succeeding times.
2. intr. (nonce-use.) To work at a ‘magnum opus’.
1821Byron Let. 22 June, That is right; keep to your magnum opus—magnoperate away.
3. intr. (nonce-use.) To act in a grand manner.
1926J. Agate Contemporary Theatre 1925 18 Everything about Richard is magnificent... He may be said not to act, but to magnoperate.
Also (as nonce-wds.) magnopeˈration, a great ‘operation’, a magnum opus; magˈnoperator, a great ‘operator’; magˈnoperous a., ? operating in a grand manner.
1928Beerbohm Seven Men & Two Others (1950) 230 Mr. Nat Heinz, the famous ‘Firsts Agent’, had recently come over from New York... I wrote at once a respectful note to this magnoperator. 1930Times 28 Mar. 15/4 Not until the very last volume did Sir John Fortescue seek the help of a ‘devil’ in any part of his ‘magnoperation’. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake i. 57 The shadow of the huge outlander,..magnoperous, had bulked at the bar of a rota of tribunals. |