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finify en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈfaɪnɪfaɪ/
  • /ˈfɪnɪfaɪ/

Etymology

From fine + -ify.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To make fine; to dress finically.
    • finifying himself like a Frenchified dandy 1878, Dorothy Henrietta Boulger, Maid Ellice:
    • Christs coming in the Fleſh here also, plainly finifying his bodily appearance in the World 1680, George Keith, The Rector Corrected:

Forms

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finified Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
finified Tense=Past lexicographic
finifying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
finifies Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic