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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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 Earle, Alice Morse
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)
"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 Earle, John
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 Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
Also all and singular damnified persons, besides other proofes, were compelled to verifie their losses by their formall othes, taken vpon the holy Bible.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Hakluyt, Richard
I drop all points of controversy, weighty though these be; I take your defaced and damnified kirk on your own terms; and I ask you, Are you a worthy minister?
From Lay Morals by Stevenson, Robert Louis
In consideration of which piracies and molestations, your messengers demanded full restitution and recompense to be made, either vnto the damnified parties, or vnto their procurators.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Hakluyt, Richard
The most gracious prince is bounde to doe his indeuor, that the parties damnified may haue restitution of their goods made vnto them, or at least complete iustice and iudgement without delay.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Hakluyt, Richard
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 Paine, Ralph Delahaye
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 Twain, Mark
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 Dent, John Charles
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