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mellify

mellify verb: to embalm in honey.

Verb

mellify (third-person singular simple present mellifies, present participle mellifying, simple past and past participle mellified)

  1. (transitive) To embalm in honey.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To make honey.

Forms of mellify

third-person singular presentmellifies
present participlemellifying
past participlemellified
pastmellified

Origin of mellify

From Latin mellificāre (“to make honey”), or mel (“honey”) + -ify.

Questions about mellify

What does mellify mean?
Mellify means to embalm in honey.
What part of speech is mellify?
Mellify is a verb.
What is the past tense of mellify?
The past tense of mellify is mellified.

Words near mellify in the dictionary

  1. mellifluous
  2. mellifluously
  3. mellifluousness
  4. mellifluousnesses
  5. mellifulous
  6. mellify
  7. mellifying
  8. melligenous
  9. melligo
  10. melliloquent
  11. Mellin

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