Meanings
verbsicklify (third-person singular simple present sicklifies, present participle sicklifying, simple past and past participle sicklified)
present singular third person sicklifies · participle present sicklifying · participle past sicklified · past sicklified
- datednonstandardraretransitiveTo make sickly or sickish
[…] and sent forth as supposed good books, only to serve as trash, instead of bread, for Sunday-school children, and to sicklify and sentimentalize good girls; while they are the derision of all the stronger minded.
1874, The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church, volume 18, London, page 192
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