finify

fine +‎ -ify

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪnɪfaɪ/, /ˈfaɪnɪfaɪ/

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

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

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