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[di-STEND] 
intransitive verb
1. to stretch out or extend in all directions especially from, or as if from, internal pressure; to dilate; to enlarge, as by elasticity of parts; to inflate so as to produce tension; to cause to swell
transitive verb
2. to cause to stretch out or extend in all directions especially from, or as if from, internal pressure: "The borders of my hometown are being continually redrawn as the needs of an ever increasing population distend its limits."
noun form: distender
Origin:
Approximately 1400; from Latin, 'distendere': to swell or stretch ('dis': apart, + 'tendere': to stretch). In Action:
"Plato was essentially a poet--the truth and splendor of his imagery, and the melody of his language, are the most intense that it is possible to conceive...Cicero sought to imitate the cadence of his periods, but with little success. Lord Bacon was a poet. His language has a sweet and majestic rhythm, which satisfies the sense, no less than the almost superhuman wisdom of his philosophy satisfies the intellect; it is a strain which distends, and then bursts the circumference of the reader's mind, and pours itself forth together with it into the universal element with which it has perpetual sympathy."
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). English romantic poet. 'A Defence of Poetry'. | |
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