"nonsensify" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1872, A. B. Grossart, ed., The Complete Poems of Robert Southwell, Printed for private collection, \"St. Peter's Complaint,\" p. 51 (note for stanza 65, line 2)",
          "text": "Turnbull again obscures and nonsensifies by misprinting \"works\" for \"words.\""
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          "ref": "1949, Wilson Library Bulletin,, volume 24, page 241:",
          "text": "The artist, generalizing from the facts of experience, combines concrete symbols absurdly so as to nonsensify pragmatic reality.",
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          "ref": "2001, Phillip Harth et al., Eighteenth-century Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Phillip Harth, →ISBN, page 84:",
          "text": "But Swift will have none of this. He nonsensifies Collins.",
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          "ref": "2002, Alun Rees, \"Golf: Maruyama outshone,\" Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), 27 Jul.",
          "text": "The Dutchman, taking the 16th stage of the Tour de France after a solo effort which nonsensified all known laws of human endurance, smiled."
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        "To treat as, transform into, or create nonsense, whether intentionally or unintentionally."
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