Obs. [a. Fr. albification, ad. med.L. albificātiōn-em, n. of action f. albificā-re: see ALBIFY.] The process or art of making white. (Chiefly as a term in Alchemy.)
c. 1386. Chaucer, Chan. Yeom. Prol. & T., 252. Oure fourneys eek of calcinacioun, And of watres albificacioun.
1592. Lilly, Galathea, II. iii. 233. It is a very secret science, for none almost can understand the language of it [e.g.] … albification.
[Also in Bailey (not in Johnson), Todd, and mod. Dicts.]
