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单词 portify
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portifyv.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: port n.7, -ify suffix.
Etymology: < port n.7 + -ify suffix, probably punningly after fortify v.
Obsolete.
transitive. To convert (claret) into port; in quot. 1861 figurative.Apparently an isolated use.
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1861 W. M. Thackeray Roundabout Papers 123 I grant you..that this claret is loaded, as it were; but your desire to portify yourself is amiable, is pardonable, is perhaps honourable.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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