finify

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

fine +‎ -ify

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɪnɪfaɪ/, /ˈfaɪnɪfaɪ/

Verb[edit]

finify (third-person singular simple present finifies, present participle finifying, simple past and past participle finified)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To make fine; to dress finically.
    • The template Template:RQ:Jonson Pan's Anniversary does not use the parameter(s):
      passage=Hath so pared and '''finified''' them [his feet].
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      c. 1620-1625, Ben Jonson, Pan's Anniversary
    • 1680, George Keith, The Rector Corrected:
      Christs coming in the Fleſh here also, plainly finifying his bodily appearance in the World
    • 1878, Dorothy Henrietta Boulger, Maid Ellice:
      finifying himself like a Frenchified dandy

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