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Definition of Mercify
1. v. t. To pity.
Definition of Mercify
1. Verb. (obsolete transitive) To pity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mercify
1. to show pity [v MERCIFIED, MERCIFYING, MERCIFIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mercify
Literary usage of Mercify
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Literature: Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the by William Joseph Long (1909)
"... and his tendency to coin others, like mercify, to suit his own purposes.
It is Spenser's idealism, his love of beauty, and his exquisite melody which ..."
2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"(A.-N.) mercify. To pity. Spenser. MERCURY. (1) The wild orache. Line. (2) White
arsenic. North. MERCY. / cry you mercy, an old idiom nearly equivalent to ..."
3. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"51. mercify, to pity. Spenser, FQ vi. 7. 32. mercurial finger, the little finger.
B. Jonson, Alchem. i. 1 (Subtle). In chiromancy the little finger was ..."
4. History of English Literature by Reuben Post Halleck (1900)
"He used "eyne" for "eyes," " fone" for "foes," "shend" for "shame." He did not
hesitate to coin words when he needed them, like "mercify" and ..."
5. Halleck's New English Literature by Reuben Post Halleck (1913)
"He used "eyne" for "eyes," " fone" for "foes," "shend" for " shame." He did not
hesitate to coin words when he needed them, like "mercify" and ..."
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