panify
English
Etymology
From Latin panis (“bread”) + Latin -ificāre (“-ify”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpænɪfaɪ/
- Rhymes: -ænɪfaɪ
Verb
panify (third-person singular simple present panifies, present participle panifying, simple past and past participle panified)
- (transitive) To turn into bread.
- 1855, The Chemist, page 88:
- In 1844, M. Durand made several attempts to panify pure gluten, […]
- 1969, The Day of St Anthony's Fire[1], page 233:
- […] if Panogen spilled out on a sack of flour, it would not distribute itself in a homogeneous fashion, but would collect in a single spot and create an extremely hard crust of brilliant red which would be immediately recognizable to a baker who tried to panify it.
- 2014, Feeding France, page 78:
- He also directed his scorn at Parmentier and Cadet de Vaux’s recent attempts to panify potatoes, charging them with seeking to disfigure the gifts of Nature: why take a production which served its nutritional purpose perfectly well when boiled or baked, and force it to assume a different form?
- 2021, The Bread Book, page 447:
- It is difficult to panify but it may be aerated.