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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of ignify.

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Examples

  • Notwithstanding we wanted an example to encourage us in our porterly rudeness, we ordered them to light the wax candle, by which we ignified our pipes and blew about our whiffs; at which several Sir Foplins drew their faces into as many peevish wrinkles as the beaux at the Bow Street Coffee-house, near

    All About Coffee 1909

  • ignified defiance as Belfast falls silent after killings

    unknown title 2009

  • Bills referved are to have no force till his najcfty's affent is (ignified by the governor, which, to be valid, muft be fignified within two y«ars from the time the bill is prefented to the governor.

    An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the American United States 1795

  • And fo may we fee how the end ofthccommaundementdoth alway difclofe vnto vs all that we are therein commaunded or forbidden co do. lo Butwhy God, infuchasitwerchalfecomaundcmenteSjhath by figures rather fccretly (ignified, than exprefled what his will was, whereas there are wont to be many reafons rendered thcrofjthis one realbn pleafcth me aboue the reft.

    The institution of christian religion 1578

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