What 39-Across means

Usage examples of magnificent.

He placed a magnificent collation before the Electress, and sang a song of his own composition, accompanying himself on the piano.

It was a magnificent spectacle, affording one of the most gorgeous and glorious displays of naval power ever presented to the eyes of even a British sovereign.

The Donatello-Michelozzo partnership lasted until about 1433, drawing a number of lucrative commissions, including a magnificent tomb of the antipope John XXIII for the Baptistery in Florence, which was nearing completion in 1427.

He gazed approvingly at the peristyle outside, with its fabulous frescoes of Vestal Virgins and magnificent marble pool and fountains.

The girls stood among the banksia trees admiring the magnificent flowers of the many species that thrive in the sandy plains.

Cai did that, showing magnificent courage, battling with a dozen or more alone until one by one his men joined him.

The last act before the curtain call by all the performers was a magician, a magnificent magician with two bespangled women assistants whom he kept making disappear and reappear in various sections of the audience, high above on a rafter, or inside one of the four locked boxes on a raised platform.

The birds of paradise fled at our approach, and truly I despaired of getting near one when Conseil, who was walking in front, suddenly bent down, uttered a triumphal cry, and came back to me bringing a magnificent specimen.

Such a magnificent structure on such wretched foundations, Buri thought as the man stopped in front of him, inclined his head slightly, and raised his hand in a salute of greeting.

American girls just arrived on big ships took care of their chaperons and gazed with interest at the passing show, especially at the magnificent Arabs who appeared to float rather than walk, looking neither to right nor left, their white burnouses blowing behind them.

The screen went blank, to be replaced an instant later by a holographic representation of a section of a magnificent bathroom.

The other dissimilar building was the cantina itself, a magnificent triumph of beauty and design when compared with the dismal homogeny of the rest of the colony.

To this epoch of ardent abstractions and impassioned logomachies belongs the philosophical reign of Julian, an illuminatus and Initiate of the first order, who believed in the unity of God and the universal Dogma of the Trinity, and regretted the loss of nothing of the old world but its magnificent symbols and too graceful images.

Kat, and the stage where Luke was holding a quiet discussion with Magnifico the Magnificent.

Claude Heath, the rising young composer, who recently married the beautiful Miss Charmian Mansfield, of Berkeley Square, has just rented and furnished elaborately a magnificent studio in Renwick Place, Chelsea.