Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cleanse; make clean; purify.
- To do something by way of cleansing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To cleanse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
cleanse .
Etymologies
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Compare French mondifier, Latin mundificare. See mundificant.
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Examples
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Poultices made from the herb are applied to cleanse and heal chronic sores, which, as Gerard teaches, "they do scour and mundify."
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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The same in Powder, and a Lotion made thereof, is much used by the Savages, to mundify old Ulcers, and for several other Uses; being highly esteem'd among them.
fbharjo commented on the word mundify
mundify cleanse, purify
January 12, 2007