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To corrupt; to make foul. Private suits do putrefy the public good. Bacon. They would but stink, and putrefy the air. Shak.

To putrefy.

individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate. It hath no larynx . . . to qualify the sound. Sir T. Browne.

To modify or qualify with respect to quantity; to fix or express the quantity of; to rate.

To divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an art, subject, scheme.

To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense; to expand or enlarge without adding any new portion of matter to; -- opposed to condense.

le; especially, to give sanction to, as something done by an agent or servant; as, to ratify an agreement, treaty, or contract; to ratify a nomination. It is impossible for the divine power to set a seal to a lie by ratifying an imposture with such a miracle. South.

To convert again into flesh. [Obs.] Howell.

e or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will, the judgment, opinions; to rectify disorders. I meant to rectify my conscience. Shak. This was an error of opinion which a conflicting opinion would have rectified. Burke.…

To edify anew; to build again after destruction. [R.] Milton.

Full of reefs or rocks.

To fortify anew.

To modify again or anew; to reshape.

To pacify again.

To purify again.

To cause to revive. Some association may revivify it enough to make it flash, after a long oblivion, into consciousness. Sir W. Hamilton.

Having roofs. [R.] Dryden.

To redden. [R.] "Waters rubifying." Chaucer.

To Russianize; as, to Russify conquered tribes.

Toconvert into, or to impregnate with, sugar.