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Webster 1913 Edition
Citified
Cit′i-fied
,Adj.
[
City
+-fy
.] Aping, or having, the manners of a city.
Definition 2024
citified
citified
English
Verb
citified
- simple past tense and past participle of citify
Adjective
citified (comparative more citified, superlative most citified)
- Characteristic of the sophisticated customs or dress associated with city life.
- 1794, quoted in 2009, Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815,
- New York is less citified than Philadelphia.
- 1922, University of Chicago Dept of Education, The Elementary school journal, Volume 23,
- It was not much more citified than it was countrified.
- 1928, The Mimes of the Courtesans (English translation of a work by Lucian):
- Isn't he handsome? Isn't he a man of the world? Isn't he citified?
- 1931, Russell Lord, Men of Earth, 1975 reprint edition, American Farmers and the Rise of Agribusiness,
- As the countryside becomes more and more citified and farming more and more specialized, motorized and businesslike, I suppose that the farmer's mental scope and habits will become more like mine.
- 1943, Ann Chidester, No longer fugitive, page 215:
- But he's citified and holds his cup just right and never has to think about it.
- 1982, Robert John Smith, Ella Lury Wiswell, The Women of Suye Mura,
- She is a citified young woman, and the more citified people are the more difficult it is to ask and get answers to personal questions.
- 1794, quoted in 2009, Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815,