Word Meanings - MUNIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To prepare for defense; to fortify.
Related words: (words related to MUNIFY)
- DEFENSER
Defender. Foxe. - DEFENSE; DEFENCE
The defendant's answer or plea; an opposing or denial of the truth or validity of the plaintiff's or prosecutor's case; the method of proceeding adopted by the defendant to protect himself against the plaintiff's action. 5. Act or skill in making - PREPARER
One who, or that which, prepares, fits, or makes ready. Wood. - FORTIFY
1. To add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack. Timidity was fortified by pride. Gibbon. Pride came to the aid of fancy, and both combined to fortify his resolution. Sir W. Scott. 2. To strengthen - DEFENSELESS
Destitute of defense; unprepared to resist attack; unable to oppose; unprotected. -- De*fense"less*ly, adv. -- De*fense"less*ness, n. - DEFENSE
Better manned and more strongly defensed. Hales. - PREPARED
Made fit or suitable; adapted; ready; as, prepared food; prepared questions. -- Pre*par"ed*ly, adv. Shak. -- Pre*par"ed*ness, n. - PREPARE
1. To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for seed; to prepare a lesson. Our souls, not yet prepared for upper light. Dryden. 2. To procure - SELF-DEFENSE
The act of defending one's own person, property, or reputation. In self-defense , in protection of self, -- it being permitted in law to a party on whom a grave wrong is attempted to resist the wrong, even at the peril of the life of - DISPREPARE
To render unprepared. Hobbes. - REFORTIFY
To fortify anew.