n. The act of making acetous or sour; the process of converting, or of becoming converted, into vinegar. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Producing acidity; converting into an acid. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. acidification. ] The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Additional signification. [ R. ] Tooke. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. aérification. See A&unr_;rify. ]
‖n. [ F., fr. afficher to affix. ] A written or printed notice to be posted, as on a wall; a poster; a placard. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. [ Cf. F. albification: L. albus white + ficare (only in comp.), facere, to make. ] The act or process of making white. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. algificus, fr. algus cold + facere to make. ] Producing cold. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ L. amplificatus, p. p. of amplificare. ] To amplify. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. amplificatio. ]
Exaggeration is a species of amplification. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]
I shall summarily, without any amplification at all, show in what manner defects have been supplied. Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Amplificatory. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Serving to amplify or enlarge; amplificative. Morell. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. artificium, fr. artifex artificer; ars, artis, art + facere to make: cf. F. artifice. ]
The material universe . . . in the artifice of God, the artifice of the best Mechanist. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]
His [ Congreve's ] plots were constructed without much artifice. Craik. [ 1913 Webster ]
Those who were conscious of guilt employed numerous artifices for the purpose of averting inquiry. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. artificier, fr. LL. artificiarius. ]
The great Artificer of all that moves. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. artificialis, fr. artificium: cf. F. artificiel. See Artifice. ]
Artificial strife
Lives in these touches, livelier than life. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Artificial arguments (Rhet.),
Artificial classification (Science),
Artificial horizon.
Artificial light,
Artificial lines,
Artificial numbers,
Artificial person (Law).
Artificial sines,
tangents, etc.
n. The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To render artificial. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv.
The spider's web, finely and artificially wrought. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]
Sharp dissembled so artificially. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being artificial. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. artificiosus. ] Artificial. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To beatify. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. béatification. ] The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of “the blessed, ” or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage in the process of canonization. “The beatification of his spirit.” Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. the act of making something more beautiful. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
‖n.;
a. [ L. beneficus. See Benefice. ] Favorable; beneficent. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. bénéfice, L. beneficium, a kindness , in LL. a grant of an estate, fr. L. beneficus beneficent; bene well + facere to do. See Benefit. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ Such an estate was granted at first for life only, and held on the mere good pleasure of the donor; but afterward, becoming hereditary, it received the appellation of fief, and the term benefice became appropriated to church livings. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ All church preferments are called benefices, except bishoprics, which are called dignities. But, ordinarily, the term dignity is applied to bishoprics, deaneries, archdeaconries, and prebendaryships; benefice to parsonages, vicarages, and donatives. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
a. Possessed of a benefice or church preferment. “Beneficed clergymen.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having no benefice. “Beneficeless precisians.” Sheldon. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. beneficentia, fr. beneficus: cf. F. bénéficence. See Benefice. ] The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness. [ 1913 Webster ]
And whose beneficence no charge exhausts. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence. [ 1913 Webster ]
The beneficent fruits of Christianity. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Relating to beneficence. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a beneficent manner; with beneficence. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Cf. F. bénéficial, LL. beneficialis. ]
The war which would have been most beneficial to us. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a beneficial or advantageous manner; profitably; helpfully. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being beneficial; profitableness. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Cf. F. bénéficiaire, LL. beneficiarius. ]
A feudatory or beneficiary king of England. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.;
The rich men will be offering sacrifice to their Deity whose beneficiaries they are. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ Sp. beneficiar to benefit, to work mines. ] (Mining) To reduce (ores). --
a. Beneficent. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Calciferous.
n. (Physiol.) The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and of teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. calorificus; calor heat + facere to make; cf. F. calorifique. ] Possessing the quality of producing heat; heating. [ 1913 Webster ]
Calorific rays,
n. [ Cf. F. calorification. ] Production of heat, esp. animal heat. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Physiol.) Having, or relating to the power of producing heat; -- applied to foods which, being rich in carbon, as the fats, are supposed to give rise to heat in the animal body by oxidation. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. caprificatio, fr. caprificare to ripen figs by caprification, fr. caprificus the wild fig; caper goat + ficus fig. ] The practice of hanging, upon the cultivated fig tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous insects. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ It is supposed that the little insects insure fertilization by carrying the pollen from the male flowers near the opening of the fig down to the female flowers, and also accelerate ripening the fruit by puncturing it. The practice has existed since ancient times, but its benefit has been disputed. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. carnification. ] The act or process of turning to flesh, or to a substance resembling flesh. [ 1913 Webster ]