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oldify en · VERB

Etymology

From old + -ify.

Meanings

1. To cause to appear older.
   • Me and Dad would go to auctions and buy bits and bobs, then we'd oldify them — a sup of tea on a map, an ancient frame on a new picture. 2009, Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Nude, →ISBN, page 35:
   • He cared more about history, and had vast projects for preserving, beautifying and “oldifying" the city. 2005, Louisa Blair, The Anglos: The Hidden Face of Quebec City - Volume 2, page 50:
   • Mickleover has a good timber-framed house tucked away behind a still rural-looking village square, and Chellaston, besides some buildings on the main street and one old pub that has been modernised and re-oldified, has the memory of its former importance in the alabaster industry. 1978, Roy Christian, Derbyshire, page 36:
   • In the following example, I'm going to show you how to “oldify” an image by giving it a sepia tint and adding some noise to it to make it seem a bit less crisp. 2006, Todd Yard, Matt Voerman, Paul Barnes-Hoggett, Flash 8 Essentials, →ISBN, page 276:
   • It is written in a vaguely oldified English - the sort of language an upmarket Hollywood hack might imagine them speaking at a jousting tournament circa 1180. 2005, Theatre Record, page 1096:
   • He is become very tottering & oldified & Souk now beats him in bodily strength. 1938, Baroness Dorothea Mary Roby Thorpe Charnwood, Call Back Yesterday, page 172:

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