† sanguifyv.
Obsolete.figurative.1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 66 I doubt his will like a hard spleen draws faster then his understanding can well sanguifie.
1. intransitive. To produce blood.
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the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood > formation of blood > produce blood [verb (intransitive)]
sanguify1624
1624 Bp. J. Hall True Peace-maker 18 The head to deuise and command, the eies to see,..the liuer to sanguifie.
1652 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged (1656) 375 If the Liver be weak and cannot make Blood enough, (I would have said sanguifie if I had written only to Schollers).
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. i. 29 I do not digest, sanguifie, nor my Heart move, nor my Blood circulate..by any immediate command of my Will.
2. transitive. To convert into blood.
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the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood > formation of blood > convert into blood [verb (transitive)]
sanguify1650
1650 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (1655) iii. xi. §11. 218 As the chyle is sanguified in the Liver, Spleen, and Veins.
1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 265 When the Relicks of the Chyle which are not sanguify'd are not excreted.
Derivatives
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the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood > formation of blood > [adjective]
sanguifying1620
sanguificative1662
sanguific1684
sanguigenous1852
haematogenic1876
haemopoietic1876
1620 T. Venner Via Recta ii. 40 Which..it doth..enfeeble, and dispoliate of its sanguifying facultie.
1665 M. Nedham Medela Medicinæ 400 The liquor hath less of a Vital Sanguifying power than it had before.
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