arefyv.
/ˈarɪfʌɪ/ ? Obsolete.
transitive and intransitive. To dry up, parch, wither. Hence the participial adjectives arefied, arefying.
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1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth viii. sig. D.iv For fyre doth aryfye..a mannes blode.
1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 209/1 Vnguent for the arefyinge Ioynctes.
1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 209/1 Annoyncte therwith the arefyede Ioyncte.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §320 That heat which is in lime and ashes..doth neither liquefy nor arefy.
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Pharmaceut. Shop i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Ddddv The powders will soon arefie.
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