v. humorous. [f. TORY + -FY.] trans. To make a Tory of, convert to Toryism (generally dyslogistic). Hence Toryfied, Toryfying ppl. adjs.; also Toryfication, conversion to Toryism.
1763. Wilkes, N. Brit., No. 37 (1766), 212. The strict harmony subsisting between the whiggified Tories, the torified Whigs, and the amphibious North Britons.
1834. Lady Granville, Lett. (1894), II. 177. Neither of the Clanricardes seems pleased, or Tory-fied at the news.
1853. Sir G. C. Lewes, Lett., 262. Most of his [Gladstone’s] High church supporters stick to him, and … he is Liberalizing them, instead of their Torifying him.
1876. G. Meredith, Beauch. Career, xxviii. Mr. Tuckham was … prophesying the Torification of mankind.
1901. A. Birrell, in N. Amer. Rev., Feb., 251. The Toryfication … of London and of so many of our great towns … is one of the most striking political facts of recent times.
1902. Academy, 11 Jan., 667/1. Lowell was born and bred in a Toryfied old country seat at Elmwood, Cambridge, New England.
