单词 | rubifying |
释义 | † rubifyingn. 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. 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). < n.1624adj.c1405 |
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