v. Also jellyfy. [See -FY.]
1. trans. To convert into jelly; to reduce to the consistence of jelly.
1806. Southey, Lett. (1856), I. 374. My solids seem to be jellified by so much shaking.
1866. Blackmore, Cradock Nowell, lvii. (1883), 396. A little snake, semi-transparent and jellified.
2. intr. To become or turn into a jelly.
1880. Miss Bird, Japan, II. 201. Soap jellyfies, ink turns mouldy.
Hence Jellified ppl. a.; also Jellification, the action of ‘jellifying.’
1864. Sala, in Daily Tel., 1 Nov., 5/1. A decomposed cod’s head attached to a bundle of jellyfied seaweed.
1881. Sat. Rev., 24 Sept., 383/2. In process of jellification.
1883. Hardwich’s Photogr. Chem. (ed. Taylor), 374. The washing of the jellified emulsion to remove from it the crystallizable salts.
