a. Not in dignified use. [f. STILT sb. or v. + -(I)FY + -ED1.] = STILTED 2.
1820. Byron, To Murray, 7 June. Mrs. Hemans is a poet … too stiltified and apostrophic.
1830. Fraser’s Mag., I. 241. High-wrought romance and stiltified language.
1887. C. C. Rhys, Minora Carmina, 249.
| I care not for tragedy’s stiltified ways; | |
| There are heights an old man cannot climb;— | |
| But the Clown can amuse and the exquisite Fays | |
| Still charm me in thee, Pantomime! |
So Stiltify v. trans. = STILT v. 1.
1860. C. Reade, Cloister & Hearth, lxv. (1896), 201. Skinny dwarfs … cushioned and stiltified into great fat giants.
