damnify
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of damnify
1505–15; < Middle French damnifier, Old French < Late Latin damnificāre, derivative of Latin damnific ( us ) harmful, equivalent to damn ( um ) damage + -ificus ( see -i-, -fic); see -ify
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But seeing it was our happs to damnify each other unwillingly, let us be content with our harms, and lay the fault where it was, and so become friends.
From Fair Em by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
In Haverhill, in 1708, young women were permitted to build pews, provided they did not "damnify the Stairway."
From Sabbath in Puritan New England by Alice Morse Earle
Secondly, a man may damnify another by preventing him from obtaining what he was on the way to obtain.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas
"Alexander commanded his soldiers neither to damnify Pindarus, the poet, nor any of his family."
From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle
There be also books which are partly useful and excellent, partly culpable and pernicious; this work will ask as many more officials, to make expurgations and expunctions, that the commonwealth of learning be not damnified.
From Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England by John Milton
Received from Mr. Duncan Campbell Three Bailes Merchandise, Whereof one he had opened being much damnified by water....
From The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Ralph Delahaye Paine
In consideration whereof being vehemently moued by the damnified parties, he humbly besought your highnesse by his messengers and letters, for complement and execution of iustice.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Richard Hakluyt
Continental jurists give a wider meaning to barratry, as meaning any wilful act by the master or crew, by whatever motive induced, whereby the owners or charterers are damnified.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
He earnestly besought that those opportunities might not be "damnified" by Calef's book.
From Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply by Charles Wentworth Upham
Also the British High Commissioner has issued a damnifying proclamation against Jameson and all British abettors of his game.
From Following the Equator, Part 7 by Mark Twain
The thirty-first question was so framed that, if truthfully replied to, it was certain to elicit facts which would form the groundwork of damnifying strictures on the principal abuses of the time.
From The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion by John Charles Dent
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