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English
Etymology
From witty + -fy + -ed.
Adjective
wittified (comparative more wittified, superlative most wittified)
- (archaic, nonce word) Possessed of wit; witty.
1826, Roger North, The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, the Hon. Sir Dudley North, Commissioner of the Customs, and the Hon. and Rev. Dr. John North, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, page 61:Divers of these were made in silver and enamel, but, in embroidery, plenty, which were dispersed to those wittified ladies who were willing to come into the order; and for a while they were formally worn, till the foundress fell under the government of another, and then it was left off.
1919, Life - Volume 74, Issue 2, page 1007:I gaze in an awed way at those upon Broadway, Or Grand Street's assemblage of pearls, Those smartly garbed, natty, vivaciously chatty, Deliciously prettified, Silly or wittified, Patently citified Girls.
1924, Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society, volume 17, page 130:Ali Baba had a maid by the name of Margiana, and she was very wittified,—discovered the whole thing, but she didn't say anything.