damnify
verb/ˈdæmnɪfaɪ/
Etymology From Old French damnifier, from Latin damnifico.
1
Obsolete To damage physically; to injure.
- he saw himselfe so freshly reare, / As if late fight had nought him damnifyde […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- The infectious raines most damnifying the poore saylers, who must be upon the decks to hand in their sailes, abiding the brunt […]1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, section I:
1 more example
- The High Tide at Bristol spoil'd or damnify'd 1500 Hogsheds of Sugars and Tobaccoes, besides great quantities of other Goods.1704, Daniel Defoe, The Storm:
2
Law To cause injuries or loss to.
- Derived terms
- indemnify