candify

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To candy.

   • […] seven little pies—molasses pies, baked in saucers—each with a brown top and crisp candified edge, which tasted like toffy and lemon-peel, and all sorts of good things mixed up together.
   • The candifying or granulating of extracted honey has also been a hinderance and great draw back to its introduction and use.
2. 2

   To make sweet or saccharine at the expense of serious meaning.

   • Jazz was not always an accepted music, and, of course, today we have the problem of remaining faithful to the cultural roots of jazz, not just candifying, Disneyfying the music.
   • They have become democratized into an item of popular consumption, perhaps a more gritty comestible than the candified menu served up in Disneyland's version of the American past...
   • A minor misfortune of Ravel’s legacy is the relative obscurity of his best piano pieces and the prominence of their candified orchestral versions.

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