sicklify
verbEtymology From sickly + -fy.
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Dated, Nonstandard, Rare To make sickly or sickish
- […] and sent forth as supposed good books, only to serve as trash, instead of bread, for Sunday-school children, and to sicklify and sentimentalize good girls; while they are the derision of all the stronger minded.1874, The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church, volume 18, London, page 192: