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Webster 1913 Edition

(dăm′nĭ-fī)

Verb.

[LL.

damnificare

, fr. L.

damnificus

: cf. OF.

damnefier

. See

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.

, v.t.

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.

To hurt; to injure; to impair; applied to a person.