colorificadj.

1675 I. Newton Let. 7 Dec. (1959) I. 386 It follows that the colorific dispositions of rays are also connate with them, & immutable.

1704 I. Newton Opticks i. ii. 143 The colorific qualities of the rays.

1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 193 Colorific earths, or those which strongly stain the fingers.

1800 Sir W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 90 273 The refrangibility of calorific rays cannot extend much beyond that of colourific light.

1861 H. Macmillan Footnotes from Nature 112 Lichens which are richest in colorific principles.

1913 J. C. Thresh Exam. Waters & Water Supplies (ed. 2) ii. 29 I prefer to use fluorescin wherever possible, since it is very soluble in water, has great colorific power, is easily identified, and a trace of it left in the well water is perfectly harmless.

2001 Statesman (India) (Nexis) 4 Mar. In 1876, O.N. Witt put forward an extended theory, postulating that all coloured organic compounds must contain a characteristic group... These colourific groups he called ‘chromophore’.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 124. ⁋7 This month [sc. May]..decks the gardens with all the mixtures of colorifick radiance.

1774 W. Hooper Rational Recreations II. xlii. 162 Father Castel..supposes the note ut to answer to blue in the prismatic colours, the note re to yellow and mi to red... He constructs the following gamut of colorific music.

1817 Times 6 Sept. 2/4 The bright green ground..does not blend sufficiently with the other tints for the production of colorific harmony.

1851 J. P. Nichol Archit. Heavens (ed. 9) 223 The observed colorific changes of separate systems.

1914 J. Hergesheimer Lay Anthony (1919) ii. 25 At the white marble soda-water fountain a bevy of youth was consuming colorific cones of ice cream.

1978 S. D. Cioran in G. Janecek A. Bely 108 His colorific scheme then turns abruptly to those early mystical colors of Russian Symbolism.

1992 Independent (Nexis) 4 May 18 His penchant for garish suits, colorific cravats and monogrammed cigarettes came straight from the Hollywood boards.

1812 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 68 505 The colorific pencil of Gayrasco Figueroa.

1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 10 700 His odoriferous, colorific, and daisy-enamoured style.

1887 Andover Rev. Mar. 337 Prose repeats its ideas less than poetry.., therefore its colorific repetitions are less numerous and extensive.

1921 Central Law Jrnl. 18 Nov. 352/2 The more a man feels an injustice is being done the more apt he is to clothe his thoughts in colorific expressions of vituperation.

2007 J. McCourt Now Voyagers vii. 334 One I grant that enacts a more scented and colorific version of the..mishap.

1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 326 Under the name of colorific acids..I include three substances, which possess such analogous properties that they ought to be classed together... Two of these bodies, namely, prussic and gallic acids, have been long considered as acids by chemists... A third of them, sulphureted hydrogen, has been shown by Berthollet to act as an acid.

1813 J. Millard Pocket Encycl. (ed. 2) vii. 535 Colorific acids, or those which cause colour, are the prussic, which is the colouring matter of prussian blue, and the gallic acid obtained from nut-galls.

1827 J. Mitchell First Lines Sci. xiii. 222 The acids have been divided by Dr. Thomson into acid products, acid supporters, combustible acids, and colorific acids.