Definition of "magnificoes" []

• Plural form of magnifico. (noun)

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• "This action, for a moment, revived the old controversy, and its opponents made much of the fact that there was no bathtub at Mount Vernon, or at Monticello, and that all the Presidents and other magnificoes of the past had got along without any such monarchical luxuries."
• "To conclude in [3848] Hierom's words, I will ask our magnificoes that build with marble, and bestow a whole manor on a thread, what difference between them and Paul the Eremite, that bare old man?"
• "Theserf-owning magnificoes of the capital would doubtless embrace a policy of romantic opposition to reform."