Bonify

/ˈbəʊnɪfaɪ/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To convert into―or make―good; to improve..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To convert into―or make―good; to improve.
2. To remit or reduce a price, typically in order to compensate for a tax for fee.
3. (rare) To make bony; to ossify or to pare down to the bones.

Example Sentences

to bonify evils, or tincture them with good

The inventor has (of course) been decorated, and, I am informed, has received a handsome pension from Napoleon III, who, like his great uncle, loves and cherishes every invention tending to bonify and superiorise—let me be allowed the expression—his navy.

A flask suffices to perfume, bonify, and age, a hogshead (barrique) of wine.

In the previous condition of overcoming, it was notable that while the malefics could only maltreat by overcoming through a superior sign-based square, the benefics could bonify by overcoming through a superior square or trine.

It is not suggested that the criminological viewpoint is superior to others, but rather that a criminology voice and viewpoint can bonify the current state of theorizing , research , and policy development.

With the help of a surtax of 11 florins per 100 kilos., the refiners fix the home price at a level which enables them to bonify the manufacturers for all that is sold at home, and the exporters for all that is sent abroad.

Bills due on a Sunday or holiday become due on the preceding day; the seller has to bonify the bill stamp necessary in the country where the bill is payable.

They would not come up beyond 1/2⅞, and we will bonify ⅛ in order to keep them on this yarn.

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Word Forms

• bonifies
• bonifying
• bonified
• bonafy

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