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colorific, a.|kɒlə-, kʌləˈrɪfɪk|
[ad. F. colorifique (cf. It. colorifico):—L. type *colorific-us colour-making: see -fic.]
Producing colour or colours. colorific acids: a name given by Thomson (1807) to certain acids which precipitate metallic solutions in highly-coloured powders.
1676Newton in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) II. 392 The whiteness of that light..being the result of the mixture of these unequal colorific motions. 1704― Opticks i. ii. §11. 166 The colorific Qualities of the Rays. 1794Kirwan Min. I. 193 Colorific earths, or those which strongly stain the fingers. 1800Sir W. Herschel in Phil. Trans. XC. 273 The refrangibility of calorific rays cannot extend much beyond that of colourific light. 1807T. Thomson Chem. (ed. 3) II. 326 Under the name of colorific acids I include three substances..prussic and gallic acids..sulphureted hydrogen. 1861H. Macmillan Footn. Page Nat. 112 Lichens which are richest in colorific principles.
b. more loosely. Of or pertaining to colour.
1751Johnson Rambler No. 124 ⁋7 This month [May]..decks the gardens with all the mixtures of colorifick radiance. 1851Nichol Archit. Heav. 223 The observed colorific changes of separate systems. 1889Harper's Mag. July 299/1 Pleasure in the colorific radiance of costume.
c. fig. of literary style: Surcharged with colour, ‘flowery’.
1812W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXVIII. 505 The colorific pencil of Gayrasco Figueroa. 1821Blackw. Mag. X. 700 His odoriferous, colorific, and daisy-enamoured style. |