omnify

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

omni- +‎ -fy

Verb[edit]

omnify (third-person singular simple present omnifies, present participle omnifying, simple past and past participle omnified)

  1. (transitive) To render universal; to enlarge.
    • c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Jeremy Taylor
      Omnify the disputed point into a transcendent, and you may defy the opponent to lay hold of it.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for omnify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)