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Ramify   /rˈæməfˌaɪ/   Listen
verb
Ramify  v. t.  (past & past part. ramified; pres. part. ramifying)  To divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an art, subject, scheme.


Ramify  v. i.  
1.
To shoot, or divide, into branches or subdivisions, as the stem of a plant. "When they (asparagus plants)... begin to ramify."
2.
To be divided or subdivided, as a main subject.





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"Ramify" Quotes from Famous Books



... Shakespeare's diction it will enable us ten years hence to determine how much of it was known to literature before him, and how much of it he himself gathered or gleaned in highways and byways, or caused to ramify and effloresce from Saxon or classical roots and trunks, thus "endowing his purposes with words to make them known." Meantime, we are left to conjectures. As of his own coinage I should set down such vocables as motley-minded, mirth-moving, mockable, ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XXVI., December, 1880. • Various
... that lesson, that is to say, those in whom it can expand and ramify to the fulness and complexity which is its very essence. For it happens frequently enough that we learn only a portion of this truth, which by this means is distorted into error. We accept the aesthetic instinct as a great force of Nature; but, instead of acknowledging it as ...
— Laurus Nobilis - Chapters on Art and Life • Vernon Lee
... on complicate and complete giving all kinds of pictures and start in again with the men. Here begin with Victor Herbert group and ramify from that. Simon is bottom of Alden and Bremer and the rest. Go on then to how one would love and be loved as a man or as a woman by each kind that could or would love ...
— Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein - With Two Shorter Stories • Gertrude Stein
... that even in Utopia women, at least until they become mothers, are likely to be on the average poorer than men. The second is the question of the duration of a marriage. But the two interlock, and are, perhaps, best treated together in one common section. And they both ramify in the most complicated manner into the consideration of the general morale ...
— A Modern Utopia • H. G. Wells
... the old city stood, to its outlet between the Isles Sanguinaires and the Capo di Moro, on the opposite coast. A range of mountains, considerably inferior in elevation to the central chain from which they ramify, rises almost from the shore, and stretches along the northern side of the gulf. The other coast is more indented, and swells into the ridges of the Bastelica, embracing the rich valley of Campo Loro (Campo del' ...
— Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia - with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. • Thomas Forester


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