Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Enhance

Enhance , transitive verb

[Norm. French enhauncer, enhaucer, Old French enhaleier, enhaucier; pref. en- (Latin in) + haucier to lift, raise up, from an assumed Latin altiare, from Latin altus high; compare Pr. enansar, enanzar, to advance, exalt, and English advance. See Altitude, and compare Hawser.]

1.
To raise or lift up; to exalt. [Obsolete] — Wyclif
Who, naught aghast, his mighty hand enhanced. — Spenser
2.
To advance; to augment; to increase; to heighten; to make more costly or attractive; as, to enhance the price of commodities; to enhance beauty or kindness; hence, also, to render more heinous; to aggravate; as, to enhance crime.
The reputation of ferocity enhanced the value of their services, in making them feared as well as hated. — Southey

Enhance , intransitive verb

To be raised up; to grow larger; as, a debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.