oldify

To cause to appear older.

Verb

  1. To cause to appear older.
    • He is become very tottering & oldified & Souk now beats him in bodily strength. - 1938, Baroness Dorothea Mary Roby Thorpe Charnwood, Call Back Yesterday, page 172:
    • Mickleover has a good timber-framed house tucked away behind a still rural-looking village square, and Chellaston, besides some buildings on the main street and one old pub that has been modernised and re-oldified, has...
    • It is written in a vaguely oldified English - the sort of language an upmarket Hollywood hack might imagine them speaking at a jousting tournament circa 1180. - 2005, Theatre Record, page 1096:

Origin

From old + -ify.

Forms

oldifies oldifying oldified