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To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate. To clarify his reason, and to rectify his will. South.

To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrnge in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.

Having cliffs; broken; craggy.

To form with the manners or character of a cockney. [Colloq.]

To reduce to a code, as laws.

To signify or denote in combination with something else. The cipher . . . only serves to connote and consignify, and to change the value or the figures. Horne Tooke.

To embody; to form into a body. [Obs.] Boyle.

To correct. [Obs.] When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady. Beau & Fl.

To give a rural appearance to; to cause to appear rustic. Lamb.

put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet. They cried, saying, Crucify him, cricify him. Luke xxiii. 21.

A name for a negro. [Slang]

To render dainty, delicate, or fastidious. "Daintified emotion." Sat. rev.

To cause loss or damage to; to injure; to imparir. [R.] This work will ask as many more officials to make expurgations and expunctions, that the commonwealth of learning be not damnified. Milton.

To cause to resemble a dandy; to make dandyish.

To deprive of calcareous matter; thus, to decalcify bones is to remove the stony part, and leave only the gelatin.

bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce. [Obs.] I defy the surety and the bond. Chaucer. For thee I have defied my constant mistress. Beau. & Fl.

To praise or revere as a deity; to treat as an object of supreme regard; as, to deify money. He did again to extol and deify the pope. Bacon.

To deify in part. Cowper.

To deprive of, or free from, nitrogen.

To deprive of glasslike character; to take away vitreous luster and transparency from.