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bonified

bonified is the simple past and past participle of bonify.

Meaning of bonify

Verb (1)

bonify (third-person singular simple present bonifies, present participle bonifying, simple past and past participle bonified)

  1. (transitive) To convert into―or make―good; to improve.
    • to bonify evils, or tincture them with good1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […]...
  2. To remit or reduce a price, typically in order to compensate for a tax for fee.
    • 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.1902, Benjamin Taylor, “Sugar and the Convention”, in The Fortnightly, volume 77, page 639

Verb (2)

bonify (third-person singular simple present bonifies, present participle bonifying, simple past and past participle bonified)

  1. (rare) To make bony; to ossify or to pare down to the bones.
    • 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.1820, William Blake, Jerusalem

Adjective

bonified

  1. Eggcorn of bona fide.

Origin of bonified

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Questions about bonified

What does bonified mean?
Bonified means eggcorn of bona fide.
What is bonified the simple past and past participle of?
Bonified is the simple past and past participle of bonify.
What part of speech is bonified?
Bonified is an adjective.

Words near bonified in the dictionary

  1. Bonifay
  2. Bonifaz
  3. bonifiable
  4. bonification
  5. bonifications
  6. bonified
  7. bonifies
  8. boniform
  9. bonify
  10. bonifying
  11. Bonilla

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