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▪ I. humify, v.1 rare.|ˈhjuːmɪfaɪ|
Also 8 humefy.
[ad. late L. (h)ūmificāre, f. (h)ūmificus moistening (see humific and -fy).]
trans. To render humid; to moisten. So humifiˈcation1, moistening.
1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋229 To refresh the thirst a little by the dregs of humification. 1658R. White tr. Digby's Powd. Symp. (1660) 22 The earth, which is humified either by rain, or the dew. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1790) I. ix. 89 Marcasites and pyrites..by being humefied with water or air, contract this heat.
▪ II. humify, v.2|ˈhjuːmɪfaɪ|
[f. humus + -ify.]
a. trans. To convert (plant remains) into humus.
b. intr. To undergo humification. So ˈhumified ppl. a.
1906E. W. Hilgard Soils (1930) viii. 132 Excluding the unhumified while fully dissolving the humified matter. Ibid. viii. 139 Snyder..caused various substances to humify by mixing the pulverized material intimately with a soil poor in humus. 1926Technol. Rep. Tôhoku Imp. Univ. VI. i. 10 As humification advances more and more, the cell walls are quite humified. 1936S. A. Waksman Humus iv. 64 Plant material added to the soil has first to be ‘humified’ before the nutrient elements contained therein become available for plant growth. 1948G. W. Leeper Introd. Soil Sci. xi. 136 Residues of plants are said to be humified when they lose their structure and identity in the soil.
So humifiˈcation2, the process by which plant remains are converted into humus; the state of being humified that results.
1897Minnesota Agric. Exper. Station Bull. No. 53. 13 Analyses were made of both the soil, and the material used for humus production. After the humification process had been carried on for a year the material was weighed and analyzed. 1926[see above]. 1958F. E. Zeuner Dating Past (ed. 4) iii. 64 A change in the rate of peat-growth from a slow one (allowing humification to begin in the layers near the surface), [etc.]. 1968R. G. West Pleistocene Geol. & Biol. iv. 54 The amount of humification may be measured in the field by adding a little sediment to a few ml of dilute KOH. |