mercify

English

Etymology

From mercy +‎ -fy.

Verb

mercify (third-person singular simple present mercifies, present participle mercifying, simple past and past participle mercified)

1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To have mercy on; to pity. [16th–19th c.]

   Synonyms: commiserate, rue; see also Thesaurus:pity

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Whilest she did weepe, of no man mercifide […]