Aggrandise (v.)

• To increase the power, status, or wealth of.
• Origin C17: from Fr. agrandiss-, agrandir, prob. from Ital. aggrandire, from L. grandis ‘large’.

“…others work for us long after our personal needs are satisfied, why men aggrandize and undertake, which gradually have become in my mind the essential problems of human relationship, replacing the crude problems of labour altogether in that position, making them at last only questions of contrivance and management on the way to greater ends…” – The passionate friend by Herbert George Wells