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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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TERRIFY v. 2 definitions

To make terrible. [Obs.] If the law, instead of aggravating and terrifying sin, shall give out license, it foils itself. Milton.

TESTIFY v. 6 definitions

s a knowledge of something not known to them. Jesus . . . needed not that any should testify of man, for he knew what was in man. John ii. 25.

To make tipsy. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

TOFFEE; TOFFY n.

To make torpid; to numb, or benumb.

TORREFY v. 3 definitions

To dry by a fire. Sir T. Browne.

TRANSMOGRIFY v.

To change into a different shape; to transform. [Colloq.] Fielding.

TUMEFY v. 2 definitions

To swell; to cause to swell, or puff up. To swell, tumefy, stiffen, not the diction only, but the tenor of the thought. De Quincey.

TURFY a. 3 definitions

Abounding with turf; made of, or covered with, turf. "The turfy mountains." Shak.

To represent by an image, form, model, or resemblance. Our Savior was typified, indeed, by the goat that was slain, and the scapegoat in the wilderness. Sir T. Browne.

To disfigure; to make ugly. [R.] Mad. D'Arblay.

To degrade from the state of deity; to deprive of the character or qualities of a god; to deprive of the reverence due to a god. Addison.

To deprive of glory. [R.] I. Watts.

To cause to be one; to make into a unit; to unite; to view as one. A comprehensive or unifying act of the judging faculty. De Quincey. Perception is thus a unifying act. Sir W. Hamilton.

To retract or withdraw a notice of. Walpole.

To disqualify; to unfit. Swift.

To make different; to vary; to variegate. [R.] Sylvester.

To make into a verb; to use as a verb; to verbalize. [R.] Earle.

VERIFY v. 3 definitions

te. This is verified by a number of examples. Bacon. So shalt thou best fulfill, best verify. The prophets old, who sung thy endless reign. Milton.

VERSIFY v. 3 definitions

To make verses. I'll versify in spite, and do my best. Dryden.