finify

English

Etymology

fine +‎ -ify

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfɪnɪfaɪ/, /ˈfaɪnɪfaɪ/

Verb

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

(obsolete, transitive) To make fine; to dress finically.
- 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

References

“finify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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