mercurify

English

Etymology

mercury +‎ -fy

Verb

mercurify (third-person singular simple present mercurifies, present participle mercurifying, simple past and past participle mercurified)

  1. (rare, transitive) To obtain mercury from (a mineral, etc.).
  2. (rare, transitive) To combine or mingle mercury with; to impregnate with mercury.

Synonyms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for mercurify in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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