Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The process of becoming citrine in color; the state of being so colored. Also
citronation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The process by which anything becomes of the color of a lemon; esp., in alchemy, the state of perfection in the philosopher's stone indicated by its assuming a deep yellow color.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic The process of taking on a
lemon -yellow colour, as thephilosopher's stone was supposed to do inalchemy .
Etymologies
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citrine + -ation
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