† pockifyv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To mark with pocks; to infect with pox or syphilis.
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1624 J. Gee Foot out of Snare 49 If the priests lungs bee but a little vlcerated or pockified.
1646 H. Mill 2nd Pt. Nights Search sig. 6v Who from their full-mouth pride and armes of steele, (Being pockifi'd) to prove themselves gentile.
1689 T. Plunket Char. Good Commander 26 Thou soul-destroying..vice,..That dost effeminate and pockifie Those Creatures called men.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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