v. Obs. [f. L. type *corporificāre, f. corpor- body: see -FY: cf. mod.F. corporifier.]
1. trans. To cause to assume a body or material form; to solidify.
1644. Digby, Nat. Bodies, xiv. (1658), 160. These steams being thus corporified.
1686. W. Harris, trans. Lemery’s Chym., I. xiv. (ed. 3), 347. The Salt of Vinegar … fixed into the pores of the Coral, as in an earthy substance, proper to corporifie them.
1707. Curios. in Husb. & Gard., 233. Water … hardens and corporifies it self into an Infinity of Figures.
2. To incorporate, unite into one body.
1667. Observ. Burning of Lond., in Select. Harl. Misc. (1793), 449. Fire of itself is nothing but light which corporifieth itself in the matter.
1707. Curios. in Husb. & Gard., 76. The Juices … become a solid Body by corporifying themselves with the Plant.
Hence Corporified, Corporifying ppl. adjs.
1662. J. Chandler, Van Helmont’s Oriat., Pref. to Rdr. All Creatures, first those External and Corporeal … and then those Internal, Spiritual, and Corporifying ones.
1680. Boyle, Scep. Chem., II. 112. A certain Spirituous Substance … by some mistaken for the Spirit of the World Corporify’d.
