[1670–80; color + -i- + -fic]This word is first recorded in the period 1670–80. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: bonding, festoon, fund, routine, slump-i- is the typical ending of the first element of compounds of Latin words, as -o- is of Greek words, but often used in English with a first element of any origin,if the second element is of Latin origin. Other words that use the affix -i- include: Frenchify, cuneiform
Examples of 'colorific' in a sentence
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The results of all this pioneering colorific exploration are mysterious, haunting and beautiful.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
What an intense colorific experience it is.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The present event has neither the time nor the space to consider these kinds of colorificissues in any depth.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Her insights into their colorific ambitions and compositional plans, carefully presented in captions that she herself composed, are unusually helpful.