Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Producing or imparting color.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the quality of producing colors, dyes, or hues; able to give color or tint to other bodies.
- Pertaining to color or color-sensations.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of communicating color or tint to other bodies.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete, chemistry That produces
coloured precipitates - adjective
colourful - adjective
flowery (writing)
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Examples
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i figured out how to make my name colorific on other people's buddylists.
eratoasis Diary Entry eratoasis 2003
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Then she looked down at the endless colorific ridges below.
Roc and a Hard Place Anthony, Piers 1995
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Then she looked down at the endless colorific ridges below.
Roc and a Hard Place Anthony, Piers 1995
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Professor Lippmann has created this elegant method of obtaining images which combine stability with colorific splendour.
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X. Geographical distribution of the dye-Lichens -- with the effect of climate; situation, &c., on their colorific materials.
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The fourth section of the paper was devoted to the consideration of the various tests of colorific power, which have been recommended by different authors.
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The amount of this colorific matter may be estimated quantitatively by noting the quantity of the chloride of lime solution required to destroy this blood-red color in different cases: or the same result may be obtained by macerating for a short period in milk of lime -- filtering -- precipitating the filtered liquor by acetic or muriatic acid -- collecting this precipitate on a weighed filter -- drying at ordinary temperatures and again weighing.
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"Of these, the greater number proceed on the principle of developing the coloring matter by some alkali, in conjunction with the decomposing action of atmospheric oxygen and water; others are founded on the reaction between colorific principles of certain of the dye lichens and some of our ordinary chemical re-agents."
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Tests and processes for estimating qualitatively, and quantitatively the colorific powers of individual species -- with their practical applications.
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While investigating the dyeing properties of the lichens, I made experiments, with a view to test their colorific power, on as many species as I could obtain in sufficient quantity, to render it at all useful to operate on -- that number, however, being very limited (between forty and fifty).
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