artify, v. colloq.
(ˈɑːtɪfaɪ)
[f. art n. + -ify.]
To bring art into; to make ‘arty’. Hence ˈartifying vbl. n.
| 1903 Brighton Herald 27 Oct. 11/4 Man's work..is ‘to artify the world, and to be ever spiritualizing it towards the beauty of holiness’. 1940 Scrutiny VIII. 398, I am not in favour of a rapprochement between art-music and commerce because..the artifying of ‘low’ music has been demonstrably almost wholly bad. 1940 J. Betjeman in Archit. Rev. LXXXVIII. 162 Certain inn signboards are the people's idea of art, where the brewer has not arty-fied them or destroyed them for some wretched trade-mark. 1962 Times 28 Nov. 13/4 What can happen when an attempt is made to ‘artify’ folk elements. |