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Webster 1913 Edition


Mercify

Mer′ci-fy

,
Verb.
T.
To pity.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition


Mercify

MER'CIFY

,
Verb.
T.
To pity. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024


mercify

mercify

English

Verb

mercify (third-person singular simple present mercifies, present participle mercifying, simple past and past participle mercified)

  1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To have mercy on; to pity. [16th-19th c.]
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7:
      Whilest she did weepe, of no man mercifide […].