Meanings
present singular third person panifies · participle present panifying · participle past panified · past panified
- transitiveTo turn into bread.
It is difficult to panify but it may be aerated.
2021, The Bread Book, page 4473 more examples
In 1844, M. Durand made several attempts to panify pure gluten, […]
1855, The Chemist, page 88[…] if Panogen spilled out on a sack of flour, it would not distribute itself in a homogeneous fashion, but would collect in a single spot and create an extremely hard crust of brilliant red which would be immediately recognizable to a baker who tried to panify it.
1969, The Day of St Anthony's Fire, page 233He also directed his scorn at Parmentier and Cadet de Vaux’s recent attempts to panify potatoes, charging them with seeking to disfigure the gifts of Nature: why take a production which served its nutritional purpose perfectly well when boiled or baked, and force it to assume a different form?
2014, Feeding France, page 78
Origin
From Latin panis (“bread”) + Latin -ificāre (“-ify”).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French panifier
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Italian panificare
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Portuguese panificar
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Spanish panificar
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Rhymes & wordplay
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