"candify" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1872, Susan Coolidge, What Katy Did",
          "text": "[…] seven little pies—molasses pies, baked in saucers—each with a brown top and crisp candified edge, which tasted like toffy and lemon-peel, and all sorts of good things mixed up together.",
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        "(transitive, archaic) To candy."
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          "ref": "1998, John D. Seelye, Memory's nation: the place of Plymouth Rock, page 21",
          "text": "They have become democratized into an item of popular consumption, perhaps a more gritty comestible than the candified menu served up in Disneyland's version of the American past...",
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          "ref": "2008 March 15, Bernard Holland, “Ravel: A Bit Wicked, a Bit Nostalgic”, in New York Times",
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        "(transitive, figurative, sometimes derogatory) To make sweet or saccharine at the expense of serious meaning."
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