NICEFY VERB to make dainty or delicate; to make respectable or decent - 1611 rare ETYMOLOGY from nice (adj.) + -fy FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1611 - Faire la sadinette To mince it, nicefie it, make it dainty, to be verie squeamish From: A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues - Randle Cotgrave EXAMPLE "...could lead the sessions a lot better than the instructors because they live it every day. Frankly, those programs are kind of "nicefied". It is the nice side of drug abuse: it is the nice side of alcohol abuse. The people who are attending the program know a lot more about what is really available and how they really work together in combination than many of the people leading the sessions..." From: Minutes of Proceedings and Evidence of the Standing Committee on Justice and Solicitor General (1986)
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