rubification
English
editEtymology
editCompare French rubification.
Noun
editrubification (usually uncountable, plural rubifications)
- The act of making red.
- 1655, James Howell, “To Sir L. Dives”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
- all the degrees and effects of fire, as distillation , sublimation , mortification , calcination , solution , descension , dealbation , rubification , and fixation
References
edit“rubification”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.