v. Obs. [f. FOOL sb.1 + -(I)FY.] trans. To make a fool of, render foolish.
1581. M. Hanmer, Jesuites Banner, A iij b. They are foolified in themselues.
a. 1641. Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon., ii. § 5 (1642), 80. God in Justice doth so foolifie their malice, that in their opposition against our Saviour, they run most commonly into prodigious fooleries.
Hence Foolified ppl. a.; Foolifying vbl. sb., the action of the vb.
1585. T. Washington, trans. Nicholay’s Voy. Turkie, Ep. Ded., ¶ iij b. Incurre deserued blame for talking fondly of a thing wherein I haue no practise, as somtimes did foolified Phormio.
1618. Breton, Court & Country (Grosart), 8/2. Is not the Clownifying of wit the Foolifying of vnderstanding?
1632. Vicars, trans. Æneid, XI. 970.
| Orsilochus she subt’ly seems to flie | |
| On th’inner-side, circling, with policie, | |
| Her foolified foe. |
