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pinguefy, v. Now rare.|ˈpɪŋgwɪfaɪ|
Also 6–9 erron. pinguify.
[ad. L. pinguefacĕre to fatten, f. stem of *pinguēre, pinguēscĕre to grow fat + facĕre to make: see pinguescent and -fy.]
1. trans. To cause to become fat; to fatten; to make greasy; to saturate with grease; also, to make (soil) rich or fertile.
1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 41/2 Pinguefye heerin a little linnen cloute, and applye the same on the Foreheade. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1158 The oile or ointment wherewith women..annoint the haire of their head..hath a certaine propertie in it to pinguifie withall. 1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. x. 24 It pinguifies the soyle. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. 810 The..Fumes, and Nidours of Sacrifices; wherewith their Corporeal and Spirituous Part, is as it were Pinguified. 1893Syd. Soc. Lex., Pinguefy,..to make fat.
2. intr. To become fat. ? Obs.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 52 b/2 Those partes doe increace and pingvifye. 1655in Narr. Gen. Venables (1900) 141, I need not dr. Amie to keep me from pinguifying. 1825Blackw. Mag. XVII. 72 Buttocks pinguifying on their own steaks.
Hence ˈpinguefying ppl. a., fattening.
1733Tull Horse-Hoeing Husb. xv. 201 The Pinguifying Virtue of this Medica Hay. 1828Blackw. Mag. XXIII. 375 His object being to restrain the pinguifying impulses of hunger. 1857Musgrave Pilgr. Dauphiné I. xi. 245 The graziers' pinguifying processes. |