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To deprive of, or free from, zinc.

To ascribed diabolical qualities to; to change into, or to represent as, a devil. [R.] Farindon.

To invest with dignity or honor; to make illustrious; to give distinction to; to exalt in rank; to honor. Your worth will dignity our feast. B. Jonson.

To free from acid.

To divest or deprive of deity or of a deific rank or condition. Feltham.

To fail of edifying; to injure. [R.]

To deprive of glory; to treat with indignity. [R.] Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn. Milton.

To deprive of the qualities or properties necessary for any purpose; to render unfit; to incapacitate; -- with for or from before the purpose, state, or act. My common illness disqualifies me for all conversation; I mean my deafness. Swift. Me are not disqualified by their engagements in trade from being received in hi…

To render unsatisfied or discontented; to excite uneasiness in by frustrating wishes or expectations; to displease by the want of something requisite; as, to be dissatisfied with one's fortune. The dissatisfied factions of the autocracy. Bancroft.

To form into two syllables. Ogilvie.

aspects. Separated and diversified on from another. Locke. Its seven colors, that diversify all the face of nature. I. Taylor.

To render divine; to deify. [Obs.] "Blessed and divinified soul." Parth. Sacra (1633).

To divide, as the heavens, into twelve houses. See House, in astrological sense. [Obs.]

Dreggy; waste; worthless. The dregs and draffy part. Beau. & Fl.

Fig. : To mollify; to sweeten; to please. As she . . . was further dulcified by her pipe of tobacco. Hawthorne.

To make stupid in intellect. [R.] Bp. Warburton.

Much undersized. [R.] Waterhouse.

; to teach. It does not appear probable that our dispute [about miracles] would either edify or enlighten the public. Gibbon.

Instructing; improving; as, an edifying conversation. -- Ed"i*fy`ing*ly, adv. -- Ed"i*fy`ing*ness, n.

To communicate electricity to; to charge with electricity; as, to electrify a jar.