Definition of magnificient

(The Dallas Morning News,...)

`` Nelson played magnificent football '' , Meek praised .

(Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)

The great ultimate ends of religion have served as magnificent beacon_lights that lured people toward them with an almost irresistible force , mobilizing energies and inducing sacrifices ; for_example , the Crusades , mission efforts , just wars .

(Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)

We shall not be able entirely to pass_over these connections to the East as we consider Ripe_Geometric pottery , the epic and the myth , and the religious evolution of early Greece ; the important point , however , is that these magnificent achievements , unlike those of later decades , were only incidentally influenced by Oriental models .

(Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)

This is why he made such a magnificent soldier .

(W. E. B. DuBois, Worlds of Color....)

To most of those who composed the Amen_corner it was a magnificent and beautiful experience , something for which they lived from week to week .