finify
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finify (third-person singular simple present finifies, present participle finifying, simple past and past participle finified)
- (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].
Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.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
- The template Template:RQ:Jonson Pan's Anniversary does not use the parameter(s):
References edit
- “finify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.