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• “It is the lawyers 'term, the damage of mammon (Maimonides hath a treatise with that title), that is, when any person doth any way hurt or damnify another's estate.”

  From the Talmud and Hebraica

• “An action for defamation brought in Languedoc [40] might, with propriety, be worded, "that the defendant did, with four-and-twenty mouths, four-and-twenty tongues, and four-and-twenty pair of lungs, vilify and damnify his neighbour's reputation;" for it is probable that a scolding match could not take place in the open air of that country, without enlisting volunteer seconds to that amount on both sides, all equally bawling and violent.”

  Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819

• “Secondly, a man may damnify another by preventing him from obtaining what he was on the way to obtain.”

  Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province

• “Reply Obj. 2: Just as it is lawful to strike a person, or damnify him in his belongings for the purpose of correction, so too, for the purpose of correction, may one say a mocking word to a person whom one has to correct.”

  Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province

• “Alexander commanded his soldiers neither to damnify Pindarus, the poet, nor any of his family.”

  Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters

• “Permissions to build were often given with modifying restrictions to the aspiring pew-builders, as for instance is recorded of the Haverhill church, "provided they would not build so high as to damnify and hinder the light of them windows," or of the Waterbury church, "if the pues will not progodish the hous.”

  Sabbath in Puritan New England

• “In Haverhill, in 1708, young women were permitted to build pews, provided they did not "damnify the Stairway.”

  Sabbath in Puritan New England

• “Oh, very improper; it would be indeed, not only an aggravation, but a decided loss to the church, which would damnify it to that extent.”

  Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 3

• “Then follow discussions, in which I damnify the traffick in human beings as much as possible.”

  Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846

• “Management of Satan, to damnify my precious Opportunities of Glorifying my”

  "More Wonders of the Invisible World," by Robert Calef, 1700 ; from Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706

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