mustifyv.
/ˈmʌstᵻfʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈməstəˌfaɪ/ rare.
transitive. To make musty or mouldy. Also intransitive.In quot. 1978 apparently with play on mystify v.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > be or become wearied or bored with [verb (transitive)] > make wearisome or tedious
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1828 C. D'Oyly Tom Raw, Griffin 82 Their watery vapours..mustify the raiment we have got on us.
1847 C. G. F. Gore Castles in Air II. xxi. 201 Should I, in my own country, have dreamed of mustifying myself by a humdrum dinner in..Bloomsbury Square?
1978 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 72 638 It is no part of his intention to mustify.
Derivatives
ˈmustified adj.
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1933 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 43 369 The mossy foundations of mustified legalism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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