happify

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England breakfast, and if that don't happify your heart, then my name's not Sam Slick.

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  1. To make happy. [Rare except as cant.] This Prince, unpeerd for Clemency and Courage, Justly surnam'd the Great, the Good, the Wise, Mirour of Future, Miracle of Fore-Age, One short mishap for ever happifies. Sylvester, tr. of P. Mathieu's Henry the Great, l. 642. Happify is a barbarism which I have never met with but in the dialect of the Methodist pulpit. Even “dictionaries unabridged” do not contain it. A. Phelps, English Style, p. 368. The hopeless loss of one half of our brothers and sisters, and the “happified selfishness” of the other half! N. and Q., 7th ser., V. 432.

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