v. [f. FISH sb.1 + -(I)FY.] trans. To turn (flesh) into fish.
1592. Shaks., Rom. & Jul., II. iv. 40. O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
1768. Poetry, in Ann. Reg., 241.
| By strange kitchen alchymy, ev’ry dish | |
| Seem’d transmuted for Epicure Mammon: | |
| There was fishified flesh, and fleshified fish; | |
| A calfs-head seem’d a fine jole of salmon. |
1865. Examiner, 11 March, 151/3. We have, in an English version of the French libretto, the good flesh of Molière’s shrewd, simple prose fishified by Mr. Kenney into what we suppose that gentleman to consider elegant verse.
