Meaning of bonify | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To convert into―or make―good; to improve.
   transitive
2. To make bony; to ossify or to pare down to the bones.
   rare
3. To remit or reduce a price, typically in order to compensate for a tax for fee.

Examples

“to bonify evils, or tincture them with good”

“The inventor has (of course) been decorated, and, I am informed, has received a handsome pension from Napoleon III, who, like⟳ his great uncle, loves and cherishes every invention tending to bonify and superiorise—let⟳ me be allowed the expression—his navy.”

“A flask suffices to perfume, bonify, and age, a hogshead (barrique) of wine.”

“In the previous condition of overcoming, it was notable that while the malefics could only maltreat by overcoming through a superior sign-based square, the benefics could bonify by overcoming through a superior square or trine.”

“It is not suggested that the criminological viewpoint is superior to others, but rather that a criminology voice and viewpoint can bonify the current state of theorizing , research⟳ , and policy development.”

“With the help⟳ of a surtax of 11 florins per 100 kilos., the refiners fix⟳ the home price at a level which enables them to bonify the manufacturers for all that is sold at home, and the exporters for all that is sent abroad.”

“Bills due on a Sunday or holiday become⟳ due on the preceding day; the seller has to bonify the bill stamp⟳ necessary in the country where the bill is payable.”

“They would not come⟳ up beyond 1/2⅞, and we will bonify ⅛ in order⟳ to keep⟳ them on this yarn.”

“The inhabitants of Albion at the harvest⟳ & the vintage Feel⟳ their brain cut⟳ round beneath the temples, shrieking, Bonifying into a skull, the marrow exuding in dismal pain.”

“The are beginning to ossify, or bonify, if we may make⟳ a word.”

“As soon as the cartilage is formed from the fibrous tissue the osteoblasts, which carry⟳ in their protoplasm the calcium salts, deposit⟳ their contents along the blood stream and so bonify the tissue.”

“In addition to spheres, more complex microstructures and properties bonify the control⟳ of the releasing profile such as with core-shell structures (Shum, Kim, & Weitz, 2008) and with stimuli-responsive microgels (Gu et al., 2018; Herranz-Blanco et al., 2014; Liu et al., 2011; Maher et al., 2017; Shah, Kim, Agresti, Weitz, & Chu, 2008).”

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