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Latin
Etymology
From sōl (“sun, Sun; gold”) + -ficō (“-ify”) + -tiō (“-tion”). Compare sōlificus.
Noun
sōlificātiō f (genitive sōlificātiōnis); third declension
- (alchemy) the making of gold
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.