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vaporific, a.|veɪpəˈrɪfɪk|
[ad. mod.L. vaporific-us, f. L. vapōri- vapour n.: see -fic.]
1. Associated or connected with, producing or causing, vaporization.
1781Phil. Trans. LXXI. 482 The melting, the vaporific, and shining points. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. I. ix. 375 Either in their condensed state of water, or in the state of vaporific expansion. 1799Phil. Mag. III. 419 A great quantity of vaporific,..or, as it is called, latent heat. 1861Buckle Civiliz. II. vi. 496 note, The statement by Dr. Thomson refers to the completion, or last stage, of the discovery, namely the vaporific combination of heat. 1886Daily Tel. 8 April (Cassell's), It is the product of vaporific sublimation.
2. Vaporous.
1797Phil. Trans. LXXXVII. 171 There is exhaled from it a subtile fluid in a vaporific state. 1800tr. Lagrange's Chem. I. 164 During this dry slaking heat is excited, by the moisture losing its vaporific form.
fig.1847Carlyle Misc. III. 380 With the earliest spring he has come in person,..vaporific, driven by his fixed idea. |