fishify

1. (transitive) To change (flesh) to fish; to transform into a fish.Examples: "Ben[volio]. Here comes Romeo, here comes Romeo. Mer[cutio]. Without his Roe, like a dryed Hering. O fleſh, fleſh, how art thou fiſhified?"; "By ſtrange kitchen alchymy, ev'ry diſh Seem'd tranſmuted for Epicure Mammon: There was fiſhified fleſh, and fleſhified fiſh; A calfs-head ſeem'd a fine jole of ſalmon."; "Ye ghosts and hobgoblins, and horrible shapes, Ye lions, and wolves, and ye griffins and apes, Ye strange jumbled figures from river or den, Ye fire-born monsters, and fishified men, […]"transitive

2. (transitive, figuratively) To make as wet as a fish; to drench with water.Examples: "[…] I have found a cure for his lunatic excellency. Water expelleth fire—marry, when he talks of being an archbishop, souse him, good Tio,—fishify him straight,—may be his madness is a dog madness which flieth from the fountain."; "For although unable to recognise in water an universal and infallible panacea for all the ills that flesh is heir to, we can yet bear a large testimony in its favour, and send it out to service with the highest character. It is our deliberate and mature conviction that the inhabitants of the Cumbraes and the adjacent islands of Great Britain and Ireland may, to their own infinite advantage, fishify their flesh a great deal more than they do at present."figurativelytransitive