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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.
Definition 2024
mercify
mercify
English
Verb
mercify (third-person singular simple present mercifies, present participle mercifying, simple past and past participle mercified)
- (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 […].
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7: