单词 | rubification |
释义 | rubificationn. 1. Alchemy. The process of transforming a substance to a state of redness (see rubify v. 1). Now historical or archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > [noun] > to redness rubification1592 rubifying1624 1592 J. Lyly Gallathea ii. iii. sig. C3 It is a very secrete Science, for none almost can vnderstand the language of it. Sublimation, Almigation,..Rubification [etc.]. 1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 107 To passe all the degrees and effects of fire as distillation,..dealbation, rubification, and fixation. 1692 W. Salmon Medicina Practica ii. xxiii. 288 (heading) Of the four principal Operations, Solution, Congelation, Albification and Rubification. 1893 Pall Mall Mag. 1 178 There is a great deal about solution, congelation, albification, and rubification. 1944 Stud. Philol. 41 380 The processes mentioned by Chaucer are sublimation,..rubification.., albification [etc.]. 1991 E. S. Connell Alchymist's Jrnl. (1992) 82 Not simple albifaction but rubification have we witnessed. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > making or becoming red > [noun] > making red rubefaction?a1425 redding1503 rubrification?1541 rubrication1658 rubification1661 rubricating1705 rubefacience1804 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 273 Soranus used them with alcyonium,..after shaving and rubification. 1830 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 7 347 Sinapisms present this peculiarity; they determine in the skin a rubification, accompanied with sharp and burning pains. 1895 Arena 12 140 One notable experiment is the production of rubification and vesication upon the surface of the body. 3. Chiefly Soil Science. = rubefaction n. 3. ΚΠ 1882 Geol. Mag. 226 Grey diluvium..its rubification, to introduce a French phrase of M. Vanden Broeck, being due to the infiltration of water containing acids.] 1943 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 241 476 In a forthcoming publication..Movius introduces the term, rubification, for the process of making a material red during a period of warm, moist climate. 1978 S. Afr. Archaeol. Bull. 33 27/2 The palaeoclimatic implications of the formation of an indurated crust and the rubification of these sediments are not clear. 2002 Arctic, Antarctic, & Alpine Res. 34 313/2 The depth of staining..refers to the depth to which distinct reddening (rubification) from weathering of iron-bearing minerals has occurred. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1592 |
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