v. colloq. [f. TOWN + -(I)FY.] trans. To render town-like, or characteristic of the town. Hence Townified ppl. a.
1777. Mrs. Grant, Lett. fr. Mount. (1813), II. ii. 10. You have no notion how townified folks are, in all these little garrisons.
1848. Fayetteville Weekly Observer, 28 March, 1/2. Her dress and general appearance all indicated a degree of tidiness which Mrs. ‘Eng’ lacks, indeed the people about here all say she is ‘mighty townified.’
1881. A. Strettell, in Macm. Mag., XLV. 120. This encircling grandeur will prevent it from ever getting a townified air.
1906. Academy, 15 Dec., 602/1. Besides writing curious little townified poems about green fields, it builds curious little townified cottages in them.
