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/ˈbəʊnɪfaɪ/
Verb
To convert into―or make―good; to improve.
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to bonify evils, or tincture them with good
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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.
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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.
To remit or reduce a price, typically in order to compensate for a tax for fee.
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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.
Verb
To make bony; to ossify or to pare down to the bones.
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The inhabitants of Albion at the harvest & the vintage Feel their brain cut round beneath the temples, shrieking, Bonifying into a skull, the marrow exuding in dismal pain.
The are beginning to ossify, or bonify, if we may make a word.
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As soon as the cartilage is formed from the fibrous tissue the osteoblasts, which carry in their protoplasm the calcium salts, deposit their contents along the blood stream and so bonify the tissue.
In addition to spheres, more complex microstructures and properties bonify the control of the releasing profile such as with core-shell structures (Shum, Kim, & Weitz, 2008) and with stimuli-responsive microgels (Gu et al., 2018; Herranz-Blanco et al., 2014; Liu et al., 2011; Maher et al., 2017; Shah, Kim, Agresti, Weitz, & Chu, 2008).