bonify means to convert into―or make―good; to improve. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
bonify is pronounced /ˈbəʊnɪfaɪ/.
Etymology
From French bonifier.
verb
- To convert into―or make―good; to improve.“to bonify evils, or tincture them with good”
- To remit or reduce a price, typically in order to compensate for a tax for fee.“With the help of a surtax of 11 florins per 100 kilos., the refiners fix the home price at a level which enables them to bonify the manufacturers for all that is sold at home, and the exporters for all that is sent abroad.”
- To make bony; to ossify or to pare down to the bones.“The inhabitants of Albion at the harvest & the vintage Feel their brain cut round beneath the temples, shrieking, Bonifying into a skull, the marrow exuding in dismal pain.”