bonify

present singular third person bonifies · participle present bonifying · participle past bonified · past bonified · alternative bonafy

1. transitiveTo convert into―or make―good; to improve.

   to bonify evils, or tincture them with good

   1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC

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   The inventor has (of course) been decorated, and, I am informed, has received a handsome pension from Napoleon III, who, like his great uncle, loves and cherishes every invention tending to bonify and superiorise—let me be allowed the expression—his navy.

   1854, A. R. Reeves, “Progress of the Inventive Art in France and in England”, in Ainsworth's Magazine, volume 25, page 205

   A flask suffices to perfume, bonify, and age, a hogshead (barrique) of wine.

   1856, Charles John Huffam Dickens, “The Hall of Wines”, in Household Words

   In the previous condition of overcoming, it was notable that while the malefics could only maltreat by overcoming through a superior sign-based square, the benefics could bonify by overcoming through a superior square or trine.

   2017, Chris Brennan, Hellenistic Astrology: The Study of Fate and Fortune, page 471

   It is not suggested that the criminological viewpoint is superior to others, but rather that a criminology voice and viewpoint can bonify the current state of theorizing , research , and policy development.

   2018, Patrick Lussier, Eric Beauregard, Sexual Offending: A Criminological Perspective

2. To remit or reduce a price, typically in order to compensate for a tax for fee.

   They would not come up beyond 1/2⅞, and we will bonify ⅛ in order to keep them on this yarn.

   1916, Reports of Tax Cases - Volume 6, page 112

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   With the help of a surtax of 11 florins per 100 kilos., the refiners fix the home price at a level which enables them to bonify the manufacturers for all that is sold at home, and the exporters for all that is sent abroad.

   1902, Benjamin Taylor, “Sugar and the Convention”, in The Fortnightly, volume 77, page 639

   Bills due on a Sunday or holiday become due on the preceding day; the seller has to bonify the bill stamp necessary in the country where the bill is payable.

   1904, Henry Deutsch, Arbitrage in Bullion, Coins, Bills, Stocks, Shares and Options, page 74

present singular third person bonifies · participle present bonifying · participle past bonified · past bonified · alternative bonafy

1. rareTo make bony; to ossify or to pare down to the bones.

   The are beginning to ossify, or bonify, if we may make a word.

   1896, Mary Wood-Allen, The Marvels of Our Bodily Dwelling, page 21

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   The inhabitants of Albion at the harvest & the vintage Feel their brain cut round beneath the temples, shrieking, Bonifying into a skull, the marrow exuding in dismal pain.

   1820, William Blake, Jerusalem

   As soon as the cartilage is formed from the fibrous tissue the osteoblasts, which carry in their protoplasm the calcium salts, deposit their contents along the blood stream and so bonify the tissue.

   1913, P.A. Strerath, “Calcium in its Physiology and its Therapeutical Value”, in The Medical Fortnightly, volume 43, page 513

   In addition to spheres, more complex microstructures and properties bonify the control of the releasing profile such as with core-shell structures (Shum, Kim, & Weitz, 2008) and with stimuli-responsive microgels (Gu et al., 2018; Herranz-Blanco et al., 2014; Liu et al., 2011; Maher et al., 2017; Shah, Kim, Agresti, Weitz, & Chu, 2008).

   2021, Xiujun (James) Li, Yu Zhou, Microfluidic Devices for Biomedical Applications, page 179