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rubify, v.|ˈruːbɪfaɪ|
Also α. 5–6 rubyfy(e, 6 -fie. β. 5 rubefy, 5–6 -fie.
[a. OF. rubifier, rubefier (mod.F. rubéfier), = Sp. and Pg. rubificar, It. and med.L. rubificare, a Romanic form replacing L. rubefacĕre, f. rube-us red: see -fy.]
trans. To make red; to redden. Now rare.
αc1386[see below]. c1430Lydg. St. Thomas 1 Blissed Thomas rubyfyed with blood. 1471Ripley Comp. Alch. in Ashm. (1652) 188 After thou rubify and into Glassys let hym be don. 1530Palsgr. 695/1, I rubyfye, I make reed, jeschaufe, and je rubifie. This terme is nat yet admytted in comen spetche. 1576Baker Jewell of Health 215 Let all be calcined until the whole be come unto a rednesse, and being thus rubified, let all be brought into a fine powder. 1620Venner Via Recta Introd. 2 It maketh the colour yellow, because it corrupteth the bloud which rubifieth the colour. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xi. ⁋23 The Varnish..so Burns and Rubifies the Blacking, that it loses much of its brisk and vivid black complexion. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Rubifying, Red Arsenic is supposed to be no more than the common yellow Arsenick rubified by Fire. 1831J. Davies Mat. Med. 159 This oil may be used likewise to rubify the skin.
βc1480St. Ursula A viij, The bankes with blode were rubefyed all a longe. 1620Venner Via Recta vi. 94 It is..much the better for the stomacke.., if it be rubefied, by macerating the leaues of red Roses in it. 1658A. Fox Würtz' Surg. iv. ii. 312 Calcine it to a red colour: being thus rubefied, then pulverise it.
Hence ˈrubified ppl. a.; ˈrubifying vbl. n. and ppl. a.
c1386Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol. & T. Preamble 797 Watres rubifying, and Boles galle, Arsenyk, sal Armonyak, and Brymstoon. 1622Massinger & Dekker Virg. Martyr ii. i, The armado of pimpled, deep-scarleted, rubified, and carbuncled faces. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. iii, Their dung and intestinall excretions..Topically applyed become a Phænigmus or Rubifying medicine. 1658Franck Northern Memoirs (1821) 242 Over whose rubified sands we must plough the ocean to those delectable flourishing ports. 1728Chambers Cycl., Rubifying, in Chymistry, etc. the act of turning a thing Red by Force of Fire. |