v. [f. UGLY a. + -FY.] trans. To make ugly or repulsive in appearance; to disfigure.
1576. Newton, Lemnie’s Complex., II. iii. 117. It defourmeth and vglyfyeth the skinne wyth dry, skuruye, skalie, mangie, and fylthye eruptions.
1650. B., Discolliminium, 46. These derne, dreery, direfull dayes condunghill’d and uglified me into a darke dense lumpe.
1792. Mme. D’Arblay, Diary, V. VII. 313. She is … completely a beauty…. She uglifies everything near her.
1834. Tait’s Mag., I. 613/1. When Mr. Luke marvelled at his daughter, disguised and uglified.
1857. Hawthorne, Eng. Note-bks. (1870), II. 317. I remember little or nothing of this edifice, except that the Covenanters had uglified it with pews and a gallery, and whitewash.
1898. J. A. Hobson, Ruskin, 304. The power exercised by irresponsible wealth … to uglify the outward aspects of life.
Hence Uglifying ppl. a.
1886. New Princeton Rev., I. 107. A protest against that uglifying process by which women are coaxed into resignation to old age and death.
