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Webster 1913 Edition
Damnify
Dam′ni-fy
(dăm′nĭ-fī)
, Verb.
T.
To cause loss or damage to; to injure; to impair.
[R.]
This work will ask as many more officials to make expurgations and expunctions, that the commonwealth of learning be not
damnified
. Milton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Damnify
DAM'NIFY
, v.t.1.
To cause loss or damage to; to hurt in estate or interest; to injure; to endamage; as, to damnify a man in his goods or estate.2.
To hurt; to injure; to impair; applied to a person.Definition 2024
damnify
damnify
English
Verb
damnify (third-person singular simple present damnifies, present participle damnifying, simple past and past participle damnified)
- (obsolete) Physically to damage; to injure.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xi:
- he saw himselfe so freshly reare, / As if late fight had nought him damnifyde [...].
- 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, I:
- The infectious raines most damnifying the poore saylers, who must be upon the decks to hand in their sailes, abiding the brunt [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xi:
- (law) To cause injuries or loss to.
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law: to cause injury or loss
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