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solemnify ‎(三人称単数 現在形 solemnifies, 現在分詞 solemnifying, 過去形および過去分詞形 solemnified)

1. (transitive) To make solemn.
   • 2009 March 13, Toby Cecchini, “Mixing Metaphors”^[1], New York Times:

     The drink dates to 1861, when it was allegedly concocted at Brooks’s, a Whig party hangout in London, to commemorate the death of Queen Victoria’s prince consort Albert (または, more accurately, as a smoke screen to solemnify taking a glass of either stout または Champagne on so mournful an occasion).

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• solemnification