fluidify, v.
(fluːˈɪdɪfaɪ)
[f. as fluidic a. + -ify.]
trans. To make fluid.
| 1851–9 Darwin in Man. Sci. Enq. 283 Granite rocks which have been fluidified. 1859 Todd Cycl. Anat. V. 280/2 This fluid condenses, fluidifies the respiratory gases in transitu. |
Hence fluˈidified ppl. a.; also fluidifiˈcation, the action of making fluid; fluˈidifier, an agent that fluidifies.
| 1837 S. Smith Philos. Health II. x. 161 It..needs no apparatus for the..fluidification of its food. 1842 Darwin Geol. Observ. ii. xiv. (1876) 500 The fluidified granite. 1876 Bartholow Mat. Med. (1879) 235 The alvine dejections..consist at first of fluidified faeces. 1876 Garrod Treat. Gout (ed. 3) 407 Bicarbonate of soda..causes a species of solution of the blood, and hence medicines of this class have been called fluidifiers. |