rubification

English

Etymology

Compare French rubification.

Noun

rubification (usually uncountable, plural rubifications)

1. The act of making red.
   • 1655, James Howell, “To Sir L. Dives”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:

     all the degrees and effects of fire, as distillation , sublimation , mortification , calcination , solution , descension , dealbation , rubification , and fixation

References

“rubification”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.