"finify" meaning in English

See finify in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈfɪnɪfaɪ/, /ˈfaɪnɪfaɪ/ Forms: finifies [present, singular, third-person], finifying [participle, present], finified [participle, past], finified [past]
Etymology: From fine + -ify. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|fine|ify}} fine + -ify Head templates: {{en-verb}} finify (third-person singular simple present finifies, present participle finifying, simple past and past participle finified)
  1. (obsolete, transitive) To make fine; to dress finically. Tags: obsolete, transitive

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fine",
        "3": "ify"
      },
      "expansion": "fine + -ify",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From fine + -ify.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "finifies",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "finifying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "finified",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "finified",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "finify (third-person singular simple present finifies, present participle finifying, simple past and past participle finified)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ify",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages using invalid parameters when calling Template:RQ:Jonson Pan's Anniversary",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1680, George Keith, The Rector Corrected:",
          "text": "Christs coming in the Fleſh here also, plainly finifying his bodily appearance in the World",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1878, Dorothy Henrietta Boulger, Maid Ellice:",
          "text": "finifying himself like a Frenchified dandy",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make fine; to dress finically."
      ],
      "id": "en-finify-en-verb-15xwGep1",
      "links": [
        [
          "fine",
          "fine"
        ],
        [
          "dress",
          "dress"
        ],
        [
          "finical",
          "finical"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, transitive) To make fine; to dress finically."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɪnɪfaɪ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfaɪnɪfaɪ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "finify"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fine",
        "3": "ify"
      },
      "expansion": "fine + -ify",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From fine + -ify.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "finifies",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "finifying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "finified",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "finified",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "finify (third-person singular simple present finifies, present participle finifying, simple past and past participle finified)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -ify",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages using invalid parameters when calling Template:RQ:Jonson Pan's Anniversary",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1680, George Keith, The Rector Corrected:",
          "text": "Christs coming in the Fleſh here also, plainly finifying his bodily appearance in the World",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1878, Dorothy Henrietta Boulger, Maid Ellice:",
          "text": "finifying himself like a Frenchified dandy",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make fine; to dress finically."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fine",
          "fine"
        ],
        [
          "dress",
          "dress"
        ],
        [
          "finical",
          "finical"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, transitive) To make fine; to dress finically."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɪnɪfaɪ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfaɪnɪfaɪ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "finify"
}

Download raw JSONL data for finify meaning in English (1.7kB)

{
  "called_from": "parserfns/156",
  "msg": "#tag creating non-allowed tag <pre> - omitted",
  "path": [
    "finify",
    "Template:RQ:Jonson Pan's Anniversary",
    "#invoke",
    "#invoke",
    "Lua:Module:checkparams:warn()",
    "extensionTag()"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "finify",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "parserfns/156",
  "msg": "#tag creating non-allowed tag <pre> - omitted",
  "path": [
    "finify",
    "Template:RQ:Jonson Pan's Anniversary",
    "#invoke",
    "#invoke",
    "Lua:Module:checkparams:warn()",
    "frame:preprocess()",
    "#tag",
    "#tag"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "finify",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "parserfns/156",
  "msg": "#tag creating non-allowed tag <pre> - omitted",
  "path": [
    "finify",
    "#tag",
    "#tag"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "finify",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.