mercify

English edit

Etymology edit

From mercy +‎ -fy.

Verb edit

mercify (third-person singular simple present mercifies, present participle mercifying, simple past and past participle mercified)

(obsolete, rare, transitive) To have mercy on; to pity. [16th–19th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  Whilest she did weepe, of no man mercifide […]