a. Obs.1 [ad. L. type *sōlific-us, f. sōl sun: see -FIC.] Impregnated by the sun. So † Solificous a. Also † Solificate v., Solify v., trans. to expose to the sun, to impregnate with solar qualities.

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1559.  Morwyng, Evonym., 98. To be solificate or made golden, is when we procure the vertue of the sunne; that is golde to be in it. Ibid., 99. You shall put it into the quintessence of wine, and set it forth to be solified and sonned in the spring.

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1650.  Ashmole, Chym. Collect., 119. Let the powder be most subtile with two parts of Solificous Water.

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1678.  R. Russell, trans. Geber, III. II. II. xvi. 207. And convert it … into true Solifick and Lunifick, according to that for which the Medicine was prepared.

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