bonify

verb3

1. •
   To convert into―or make―good; to improve.

   • A flask suffices to perfume, bonify, and age, a hogshead (barrique) of wine. — 1856
2. •
   To remit or reduce a price, typically in order to compensate for a tax for fee.

   • Bills due on a Sunday or holiday become due on the preceding day; the seller has to bonify the bill stamp necessary in the country where the bill is payable. — 1904
3. •
   (rare) To make bony; to ossify or to pare down to the bones.

   • The inhabitants of Albion at the harvest & the vintage Feel their brain cut round beneath the temples, shrieking, Bonifying into a skull, the marrow exuding in dismal pain. — 1820