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† ˈsanguify, v. Obs.
[ad. mod.L. sanguificāre, f. L. sangui-s blood: see -fy.]
1. intr. To produce blood.
1624Bp. Hall True Peacemaker in Var. Treat. (1627) 540 The head to deuise and command, the eies to see,..the liuer to sanguifie. 1652Culpepper Eng. Physic. (1656) 375 If the Liver be weak and cannot make Blood enough, (I would have said sanguifie if I had written only to Schollers). a1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. i. 29, I do not digest, sanguifie, nor my Heart move, nor my Blood circulate..by any immediate command of my Will.
fig.1644Milton Divorce ii. xvii. (ed. 2) 66, I doubt his will like a hard spleen draws faster than his understanding can well sanguifie.
2. trans. To convert into blood.
1650Baxter Saints' R. (1655) iii. xi. §11. 218 As the chyle is sanguified in the Liver, Spleen, and Veins. 1707Floyer Physic. Pulse-Watch 265 When the Relicks of the Chyle which are not sanguify'd are not excreted.
Hence † ˈsanguifying ppl. a.
1620Venner Via Recta ii. 40 Which..it doth..enfeeble, and dispoliate of its sanguifying facultie. 1665Needham Med. Medicinæ 400 The liquor hath less of a Vital Sanguifying power than it had before. |