单词 | ferrific |
释义 | † ferrificadj. Obsolete. rare. Iron-making; iron-producing. ΘΚΠ 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). < adj.1671 |
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