Meaning

(transitive, archaic) To candy..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, archaic) To candy.
2. (transitive, figurative, sometimes derogatory) To make sweet or saccharine at the expense of serious meaning.

Example Sentences

[…] seven little pies—molasses pies, baked in saucers—each with a brown top and crisp candified edge, which tasted like toffy and lemon-peel, and all sorts of good things mixed up together.

The candifying or granulating of extracted honey has also been a hinderance and great draw back to its introduction and use.

Jazz was not always an accepted music, and, of course, today we have the problem of remaining faithful to the cultural roots of jazz, not just candifying, Disneyfying the music.

They have become democratized into an item of popular consumption, perhaps a more gritty comestible than the candified menu served up in Disneyland's version of the American past...

A minor misfortune of Ravel’s legacy is the relative obscurity of his best piano pieces and the prominence of their candified orchestral versions.

Word Forms

• candifies
• candifying
• candified

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