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happify, v.|ˈhæpɪfaɪ|
[f. happy a. + -fy.]
trans. To make happy. (Now U.S.)
1612Sylvester Trag. Hen. Gt. 642 This Prince..One short Mis-hap for ever Happifies. 1656S. H. Gold. Law 88 It will surely conduce to prolong your days, besides happyfying them. 1786I. Perkins Poems in H. R. Stiles Bundling (1869) 99 To happyfy his life. 1837–40Haliburton Clockm. (1862) 79 If that don't happify your heart, then my name's not Sam Slick. 1875M. B. Eddy Science & Health vi. 315 To happify existence by constant intercourse with those adapted to elevate it is the true motive for marriage. 1892Spectator 9 Apr. 497/1 Finding infants whom she could wash and dress and happify among the alleys and courts of the East-End. 1905Daily Chron. 13 July 4/4 Her jargon about ‘happifying existence’ jars upon one after the Scriptural phrase, ‘making glad the hearts of men’. 1945L. Shelly Jive Talk Dict. 12/2 Happify, to make happy. 1955Watchtower 15 Mar. 182/2 Keeping these happifying thoughts in mind, we are determined to maintain our integrity faithfully.
Hence ˈhappified ppl. a.
a1853Robertson Lect. ii. (1858) 63 Purged of the idea of..happified selfishness. 1865E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 461 This happified convention. |