Meaning of oldify | Babel Free

Definitions

To cause to appear older.

Examples

“He is become very tottering & oldified & Souk now beats him in bodily strength.”

“Mickleover has a good timber-framed house tucked away behind a still rural-looking village square, and Chellaston, besides some buildings on the main street and one old pub that has been modernised and re-oldified, has the memory of its former importance in the alabaster industry.”

“It is written in a vaguely oldified English - the sort of language an upmarket Hollywood hack might imagine them speaking at a jousting tournament circa 1180.”

“He cared more about history, and had vast projects for preserving, beautifying and “oldifying" the city.”

“In the following example, I'm going to show you how to “oldify” an image by giving it a sepia tint and adding some noise to it to make it seem a bit less crisp.”

“Me and Dad would go to auctions and buy bits and bobs, then we'd oldify them — a sup of tea on a map, an ancient frame on a new picture.”

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