virtuefy

English

Verb

virtuefy (third-person singular simple present virtuefies, present participle virtuefying, simple past and past participle virtuefied)

1. (transitive, archaic) To make virtuous.
   • 1836, Robert Slater Bayley, Nature considered as a revelation (page 147)

     […] his friends sent him into the army, which they believed would "virtuefy" him; but he soon left it, a disgrace to his corps.