rubific
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin ruber (“red”) + facere (“to make”).
Adjective
editrubific (comparative more rubific, superlative most rubific)
- (obsolete) Making red.
- 1868, Robert Williams Buchanan, David Gray and other Essays, chiefly on Poetry:
- The silent skies with strange fire, like a dawn Rubific
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rubific”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)