a. [ad. mod.L. vaporific-us, f. L. vapōri- VAPOUR sb.: see -FIC.]

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  1.  Associated or connected with, producing or causing, vaporization.

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1781.  Phil. Trans., LXXI. 482. The melting, the vaporific, and shining points.

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1794.  G. Adams, Nat. & Exp. Philos., I. ix. 375. Either in their condensed state of water, or in the state of vaporific expansion.

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1799.  Phil. Mag., III. 419. A great quantity of vaporific,… or, as it is called, latent heat.

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1861.  Buckle, Civiliz., II. vi. 496, note. The statement by Dr. Thomson refers to the completion, or last stage, of the discovery, namely the vaporific combination of heat.

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1886.  Daily Tel., 8 April (Cassell’s). It is the product of vaporific sublimation.

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  2.  Vaporous.

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1797.  Phil. Trans., LXXXVII. 171. There is exhaled from it a subtile fluid in a vaporific state.

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1800.  trans. Lagrange’s Chem., I. 164. During this dry slaking heat is excited, by the moisture losing its vaporific form.

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  fig.  1847.  Carlyle, Misc., III. 380. With the earliest spring he has come in person,… vaporific, driven by his fixed idea.

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