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damnify, v.|ˈdæmnɪfaɪ|
Also 6–8 dampn-.
[a. OF. damnifier (in 14th c. damnefier, dampni-), ad. L. damnificāre (in Itala), to injure, f. damnific-us hurtful, injurious: see damnific and -fy.]
1. trans. To cause injury, loss, or inconvenience to; to injure, damage, hurt; to inflict injury upon, to wrong. (Very common in 17th c.; now rare.)
a. in estate, condition, or circumstances. (Now chiefly in legal use.)
1512Act 4 Hen. VIII, c. 19 §10 That no persone be..in any wyse greved or dampnifyed by reason of any certificate..excepte onely for rate and taxe beforeseid. 1574Hellowes Gueuara's Fam. Ep. (1584) 225 The Judge is more damnified in his fame, than the suiter in his goods. 1614T. Adams in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. x. 9 A money-man may not be damnified, but he may be damned. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. ii. 181 Who could damnify her, who had nothing to lose, not so much as credit? 1737Whiston Josephus' Antiq. xi. vi. §5 That the King might not be damnified by the loss of the tributes. 1891Law Times XC. 460/2 Induced by a fraudulent prospectus to make contracts whereby he was damnified.
†b. To injure physically or bodily. Obs.
a1562G. Cavendish Wolsey (1893) 229 The cross..fallyng uppon Mayster Bonner's hed..whiche was dampnefied by the overthroweng of the crosse. 1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 11 You are sure either to break them [the teeth] or to damnifie the jaw bone. 1712M. Rogers Voy. 300 Their Masts and Rigging being much damnified. 1812J. Smyth Pract. Customs (1821) 208 Hemp-seed and Lin-seed, bad, mixed, or damnified.
†c. To inflict injury upon in war. Obs.
1598Barret Theor. Warres v. i. 123 Forts..placed..in such partes as may most damnifie the enemy. 1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. lxiv. 261 The besieged were therewith mightily damnified.
†2. With double object: To subject (a person, etc.) to the loss of (so much money or property); to injure to a specified extent. Obs.
1578A. Parckhurst in Hakluyt Voy. III. 134 To grant me leave to stay here so much of their goods as they haue damnified mee. 1631Star Chamb. Cases (Camden) 63 Sr Cornelius hath been damnifyed hereby more than 2000li.. 1721St. German's Doctor & Stud. 188, I think him bound to give restitution..of all that they be damnified by it.
†3. To cause the loss of, bring to destruction or ruin. Obs.
1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus i. 9 Satans kingdome shall be destroyed and damnified. c1645Howell Lett. iv. iv. (1892) 561 A most mischievous design that would have damnified not only his own soul, but destroyed the Party against whom it was intended. 1693Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) III. 232 The privateers and other ships were haled a shore within the land, and were damnifyed.
†4. absol. To do injury. Obs.
1621Ainsworth Annot. Pentat. Ex. xxi. 28 Every living creature which is in the power of man, if it shall damnifie, the owners are bound to pay for it.
†5. intr. (in passive sense): To become damaged; to spoil. Obs.
1712E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 312 Our Goods..would damnify staying so long.
Hence ˈdamnified ppl. a., ˈdamnifying vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1545Act 37 Hen. VIII, c. 6 §1 A newe..kind of Vice, Displeasure, and dampnifienge of the Kings true Subjects. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 192 They that would haue them [Melons] grow vpon beds, as lesse damnifying. 1690Locke Govt. ii. ii. §2 The damnified Person has this Power of appropriating to himself the Goods or Service of the Offender. 1780Banff Burgh Rec. in Cramond Ann. Banff (1843) II. 233, 1400 pounds of damnified teas. 1893Edin. Rev. July 61 Our author discredits all stories concerning him..which would be damnifying. |