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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Inlarge, Inlairge, v. Also: inlayrge. [e.m.E. inlarge (1560). Cf. Enlarge v.]

1. tr. To make larger; to extend. Also fig.(a) 1598 Edinb. B. Rec. V. 232.
That … the floring [be] inlairget … to the new wall 1600 Ib. 288.
To tak ordour with Jhonn Hering … for inlayrgeing the commoun passage 1660 Nicoll Diary 314.
Dasses, saittis and loftis inlairged 1676 Edinb. B. Rec. X. 281.
Robert Milne is to take doun the east wall … and to inlairge it fourtie foots(b) 1608 Highland P. III. 114.
As ȝour heichnes dominiones ar inlargeit beȝond thairis 1638 Rec. Univ. Aberd. 410.
That the mantling caike he taken aff and inlargitfig. 1662 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. I. 144.
The present ebnesse of money requyres that new favours should be inlarged than new priviledges lessened

2. To set at large; to free. 1619 Garden Elphinston 1286.
The guiltie man … To libertie inlairg'd 1648 Glasgow B. Rec. II. 136.
The estates … did inlarge … thrie of the saides persones, out of the said tolbuith 1662 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. I. 655.
To sett Sir John … at liberty, bot, before yow inlarge him [etc.]