stiltified, a. Not in dignified use.
(ˈstɪltɪfaɪd)
[f. stilt n. or v. + -ify + -ed1.]
= stilted 2.
| 1820 Byron To Murray 7 June, Mrs. Hemans is a poet..too stiltified and apostrophic. 1830 Fraser's Mag. I. 241 High-wrought romance and stiltified language. 1887 C. C. R. Minora Carmina 249, I care not for tragedy's stiltified ways. |
So ˈstiltify v. trans. = stilt v. 1.
| 1860 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth lxv. (1896) 201 Skinny dwarfs..cushioned and stiltified into great fat giants. |