The Collaborative International Dictionary
Damnify \Dam"ni*fy\ (d[a^]m"n[i^]*f[imac]), v. t. [LL. damnificare, fr. L. damnificus: cf. OF. damnefier. See Damnific.] To cause loss or damage to; to injure; to impair. [R.]
This work will ask as many more officials to make
expurgations and expunctions, that the commonwealth of
learning be not damnified.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context obsolete English) Physically to damage; to injure. 2 (context legal English) To cause injuries or loss to.
Usage examples of "damnify".
One baleful moment damnified the fruit Of six weeks' wise strategics, whose result Had loomed so certain!
The damnified person has this power of appropriating to himself the goods or service of the offender by right of self-preservation, as every man has a power to punish the crime to prevent its being committed again, by the right he has of preserving all mankind, and doing all reasonable things he can in order to that end.
But, nevertheless, in all such cases care is to be taken that the sentence of excommunication, and the execution thereof, carry with it no rough usage of word or action whereby the ejected person may any wise be damnified in body or estate.
Now, tho' I had often and often cried unto the Lord, that the Cup of this Man's abominable Bundle of Lies, written on purpose, with a Quil under a special Energy and Management of Satan, to damnify my precious Opportunities of Glorifying my Lord Jesus Christ, might pass from me.