mundify, v. Now rare or Obs.
(ˈmʌndɪfaɪ)
Also 6–7 mondify.
[a. F. mondifier (14th c.), or ad. L. mundificāre, f. mund-us clean: see -fy.]
1. trans. To cleanse, purify. lit. and fig.
| 1504 Lady Margaret tr. De Imitatione iv. xii. 276 It behoueth the to mundifye and clense the habytacion of thy herte fro all synnes. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. xii. 335 Fire..refines those bodies which will never bee mundified by water. 1660 F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 189 My companion was forced to pay for mundifying the Cistern. 1748 Richardson Clarissa (1811) VII. lx. 237 Mundified or purified from my past iniquities. 1819 Crabbe T. of Hall xix. 258 Whatever stains were theirs, let them reside In that pure place, and they were mundified. |
b. intr. for refl. To make oneself neat or smart.
| 1699 Ed. S―cy Country Gentl. Vade-mecum 29 He..at least forces him [sc. a Beau]..to steer to the next Barber's Shop, to new Rig and Mundifie. |
2. trans. In medical use: To free (the body, blood, a wound, ulcer, etc.) from noxious matter; to cleanse, deterge.
| 1528 Paynel Salerne's Regim. Y ij, Pipper..mundifieth the lightis. 1597 Gerarde Herbal ii. viii. 189 The juice thereof mundifieth corrupt and filthie vlcers. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vii. vii. 352 The graines of the Apples of Mandrakes mundifie the Matrix. 1758 J. B. Le Dran's Observ. Surg. (1771) *147 The Flesh ought..to..be well mundified. 1854 Badham Halieut. 384 To scour and mundify the guts. |
| absol. 1541 R. Copland Guydon's Formul. U ij, The incarnatyfe helpes that brede flesshe and mundyfye. 1610 Markham Masterp. ii. clxxiii. 483 Antimonuum..mundifieth and purgeth. 1710 T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 119 It [the Electuary]..mundifies, dries, heals. |
Hence
ˈmundifying vbl. n. and ppl. a.| 1579 Baker Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. 184 A mundifyng Vnguent for inueterate vlcers. 1610 Healey St. Aug. Citie of God x. xxxii. (1620) 385 The mundifying of proficients. 1626 Bacon Sylva §65 Abstersive and Mundifying Clysters. 1631 R. H. Arraignm. Whole Creature ix. 65 The mundifying waters of the Word. 1712 Bibl. Anat. II. 203 The Ulcer..healed entirely..by the use of a mundifying and drying Collyry. |