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Definition of Colorific
1. a. Capable of communicating color or tint to other bodies.
Definition of Colorific
1. Adjective. (obsolete chemistry) That produces coloured precipitates ¹
2. Adjective. colourful ¹
3. Adjective. flowery (writing) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Colorific
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colorific
Literary usage of Colorific
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Heliochromy: Or, The Production of Pictures, by Means of Light by Levi L Hill (1856)
"ARTIFICIAL colorific AGENTS.—The Metals.—Gold—Silver—Copper—Platina ... IN this
chapter I shall treat, first, of Natural colorific Agents ; viz., ..."
2. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1837)
"A p«per wa» then read, entitled, " On the number of Primitive colorific Ray» into
which White Light may be separated." By Paul Cooper, K*q. ..."
3. The Elements of Chemistry by Thomas Thomson (1810)
"OF colorific ACIDS. Under this name I include three substances which possess
s*»ch peculiar properties that they ought to be considered separately from the ..."
4. A Manual of Natural and Experimental Philosophy: Being the Substance of a by Charles Frederick Partington (1828)
"Calorific and colorific Rays.—Rainbow.—Inflection.—Polarization of Light.—Construction
of Lenses.—Improvements by Dr. Brewster.—Compound Burning Glass. ..."
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