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English
Etymology
From old + -ify.
Verb
oldify (third-person singular simple present oldifies, present participle oldifying, simple past and past participle oldified)
- To cause to appear older.
1938, Baroness Dorothea Mary Roby Thorpe Charnwood, Call Back Yesterday, page 172:He is become very tottering & oldified & Souk now beats him in bodily strength.
1978, Roy Christian, Derbyshire, page 36:Mickleover has a good timber-framed house tucked away behind a still rural-looking village square, and Chellaston, besides some buildings on the main street and one old pub that has been modernised and re-oldified, has the memory of its former importance in the alabaster industry.
2005, Theatre Record, page 1096:It is written in a vaguely oldified English - the sort of language an upmarket Hollywood hack might imagine them speaking at a jousting tournament circa 1180.
2005, Louisa Blair, The Anglos: The Hidden Face of Quebec City - Volume 2, page 50:He cared more about history, and had vast projects for preserving, beautifying and “oldifying" the city.
2006, Todd Yard, Matt Voerman, Paul Barnes-Hoggett, Flash 8 Essentials, →ISBN, page 276:In the following example, I'm going to show you how to “oldify” an image by giving it a sepia tint and adding some noise to it to make it seem a bit less crisp.
2009, Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Nude, →ISBN, page 35:Me and Dad would go to auctions and buy bits and bobs, then we'd oldify them — a sup of tea on a map, an ancient frame on a new picture.