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To render neat; to clean; to put in order. [R.] Chapman.

To combine or impregnate with nitrogen; to convert, by oxidation, into nitrous or nitric acid; to subject to, or produce by, nitrification.

To make noble; to nobiliate. [Obs.]

To make known; to declare; to publish; as, to notify a fact to a person. No law can bind till it be notified or promulged. Sowth.

To render trifling or futile; to make silly. [R.] Coleridge.

er invalid; to deprive of legal force or efficacy. Such correspondence would at once nullify the conditions of the probationary system. I. Taylor.

To cause to become an object; to cause to assume the character of an object; to render objective. J. D. Morell.

See Stupefy. [Obs.]

To render universal; to enlarge. [R.] Omnify the disputed point into a transcendent, and you may defy the opponent to lay hold of it. Coleridge.

Fig.: To harden; as, to ossify the heart. Ruskin.

Changing into bone; becoming bone; as, the ossifying process.

To magnify too much. Bp. Hall.

quiet; to allay the agitation, excitement, or resentment of; to tranquillize; as, to pacify a man when angry; to pacify pride, appetite, or importunity. "Pray ye, pacify yourself." Shak.

esent as a person; to represent as a rational being. The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things. Chesterfield.

To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young. "Petrifying accuracy." Sir W. Scott. And petrify a genius to a dunce. Pope. The poor, petrified journeyman, quite unconscious of what he was doing. De Quincey. A hideous fatalism, which ought, logica…

To discourse in the manner of a preacher. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

To intimate or signify beforehand; to presage.

To prefigure; to exhibit previously in a type. Bp. Pearson.

lled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor. " A very stout, puffy man." Thackeray.

lement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air.