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单词 rubifying
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rubifyingn.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rubify v., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < rubify v. + -ing suffix1. Compare earlier rubefaction n., rubification n. Compare also earlier rubifying adj.
Alchemy. Obsolete.
= rubification n. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > [noun] > to redness
rubification1592
rubifying1624
1624 ‘E. Orandus’ tr. N. Flamel Expos. Hieroglyphicall Figures St. Innocent's Church-yard 123 Remember thee to begin the rubifying, by the apposition of Mercury Citrine red.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Rubifying, in Chymistry, &c. the act of turning a thing Red by Force of Fire.
1825 ‘E. Hardcastle’ 29th May I. viii. 215 Talk of alembics, lineal of albification and rubifying,..the seven celestial bodies, and other such jargon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

rubifyingadj.

Brit. /ˈruːbɪfʌɪɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈrubəˌfaɪɪŋ/
Forms: see rubify v. and -ing suffix2; also Middle English 1600s rubifyng.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rubify v., -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < rubify v. + -ing suffix2.
Now historical.
That rubifies something (in various senses). Cf. rubify v.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > making or becoming red > [adjective] > making red
rubifyingc1405
rubificative1580
ruddy1693
rubific1701
red-making1704
rubrific1704
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale (Ellesmere) (1875) G. §3. l. 797 Watres rubifiyng [c1410 Cambr. Dd.4.24 rubifyng, c1415 Lansd. rubefiinge, c1425 Petworth rubyfyinge] and Boles galle Arsenyk, sal Armonyak and Brymstoon.
1632 tr. G. Bruele Praxis Medicinæ 61 Rubifyng medicines shall in like sort bee applied to the necke.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. iii Their dung and intestinall excretions..Topically applyed become a Phænigmus or Rubifying medicine. View more context for this quotation
1732 G. Smith Institutiones Chirurgicæ xiv. 213 It is evident that a Phœnigm is only a general Term for all the rubefying and exulcerating Medicaments.
1857 Proc. Royal Soc. 8 359 On passing the fluid several times through a paper filter, the latter associates much of the rubifying substance with itself, and becomes of a rose colour.
1944 Stud. in Philol. 41 372 He refers to..the projection first of the albifying elixir, which transmutes to silver, then of the rubifying or citronizing.
1989 J. D. North in Z. R. W. M. von Martels Alchemy Revisited (1990) ii. vi. 83 He tells us..how an alchemist's money was spent—on vials, urinals,..rubifying waters and bull's gall.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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