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单词 mossify
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mossifyv.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: moss n.1, mossy adj., -ify suffix.
Etymology: < moss n.1 or mossy adj. + -ify suffix.
Obsolete.
intransitive. To eulogize or idealize moss or mossiness, and hence the rural idyll.Apparently an isolated use.
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1822 E. Nathan Langreath I. ii. 25 ‘The calm delights of a sweet rural shade—A moss-grown villa, and a learned maid.’... ‘You may mossify and poetize if you choose. I must beg to decline.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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