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chylify, v.|ˈkaɪlɪfaɪ|
[mod. f. on L. type chȳlificāre, in F. chylifier; f. L. chȳl-us: see chyle and -fy.]
To turn into chyle; to produce chyle.
1663Baxter Divine Life Pref., It is the same food which the first concoction chylifieth. a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. iv, The teeth do chew it, and the stomach doth receive, digest and chilify it.
fig.1867Select. Writ. V'ct. Strangford (1869) I. 116 The incredibly unholy purpose of partitioning, swallowing, digesting, and chylifying everything at the other side of Europe. |