damnify

From Old French damnifier, from Latin damnifico.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdæmnɪfaɪ/

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damnify (third-person singular simple present damnifies, present participle damnifying, simple past and past participle damnified)

1. (obsolete) To damage physically; to injure.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     he saw himselfe so freshly reare, / As if late fight had nought him damnifyde […]

   • 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, section I:

     The infectious raines most damnifying the poore saylers, who must be upon the decks to hand in their sailes, abiding the brunt […]

   • 1704, Daniel Defoe, The Storm:

     The High Tide at Bristol spoil'd or damnify'd 1500 Hogsheds of Sugars and Tobaccoes, besides great quantities of other Goods.

2. (law) To cause injuries or loss to.

• indemnify

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