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Meaning of GREATEN

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Great"en\, v. t.
    To make great; to aggrandize; to cause to increase in size;
    to expand. [R.]
          A minister's [business] is to greaten and exalt [his
          king].                                   --Ken.
    
  2. \Great"en\, v. i.
    To become large; to dilate. [R.]
          My blue eyes greatening in the looking-glass. --Mrs.
                                                   Browning.
    
 

 

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