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单词 ferrific
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ferrificadj.

Forms: 1600s ferrifick, 1700s ferrific.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin ferrificus.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin ferrificus (1671 in J. J. Becher Experimentum chymicum novum iii. 41, the source reviewed in quot. 1671, or earlier) < classical Latin ferrum iron (see ferro- comb. form) + -ficus -fic suffix.
Obsolete. rare.
Iron-making; iron-producing.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [adjective] > iron-working
ferrific1671
ironworking1773
1671 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 6 2235 The Ferrifick (if we may be allow'd to frame such a word) or the Iron-making Principle.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Ferrific cause, a term used by some writers to express that principle, to which what they call the production or generation of iron in burnt bodies, in which no iron could be discovered before burning, is owing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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