bonify

English

Alternative forms
  • bonafy

Etymology

From Latin bonus (“good”) + -fy. Compare French bonifier.

Verb

bonify (third-person singular simple present bonifies, present participle bonifying, simple past and past participle bonified)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To convert into, or make, good.
    • 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
      to bonify evils, or tincture them with good

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bonify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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