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Latin
Etymology
From lūna (“moon, Moon; silver”) + -ficō (“-ify”) + -tiō (“-tion”). Compare sōlificātiō.
Noun
lūnificātiō f (genitive lūnificātiōnis); third declension
- (alchemy) the making of silver
c. 1653-1656, George Starkey, translated by William R. Newman, Lawrence M. Principe, Alchemical Laboratory Notebooks and Correspondence, University of Chicago Press, published 2004, page 204:Nota quoque, quod ☿ ex 🜵 non fit sine sequestratione 🜍is Combustibilis Copiosi, Ergo & hoc ad Solificationem & Lunificationem sequestrari convenit.- Note also that mercury is not made from regulus without the separation of copious combustible sulfur; therefore, it is fitting for solifaction and lunifaction for this sulfur to be removed.
Declension
Third-declension noun.