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enhance (iou) and Roux, Pierre (medicine)


enhance (iou)



enhance verb. Also inhance. ME.
[Anglo-Norman enhauncer prob. alt. of Old French enhaucier from Proto-Romance, from Latin IN-2 + altus high.]
verb trans. Lift, raise; raise the level of. ME-L16.
verb trans. Exalt in rank, wealth, etc.; elevate spiritually or morally; lift up with pride; praise. ME-M17.
verb trans.
a. Make appear greater; exaggerate. LME.
G. Downes The satirist wished to enhance the infirmity of Philip.
b. Raise in degree; heighten, intensify, (a quality, attribute, etc.). L16.
Gibbon These delights were enhanced by the memory of past hardships.
a. verb trans. Raise (a price or value); increase (a charge or cost). LME.
b. verb intrans. Of property: rise in price. Formerly (of prices): rise. L15.
verb trans. Increase in (or formerly, in) price, value, importance, attractiveness, etc. Also, improve in quality, utility, or (formerly) Beauty. E16.
Which Computer? The 1 / 4-inch tape streamer storage system..has been enhanced to back-up the..disc drives.
enhancer noun LME.
enhancive, enhansive adjective tending to enhance M19.

Roux, Pierre (medicine)


Roux, Pierre
<person> French bacteriologist, 1853-1933.

See: Roux spatula, Roux's stain.