[See VITRIFY v. and -FACTION.] = VITRIFICATION.
1728. Chambers, Cycl., Vitrification, or Vitrifaction, the Act of converting a Body into Glass, by Fire.
1840. Vyse, Oper. Pyramids Gizeh, I. 228. In some instances the glaize was of an extremely brilliant colour, and a perfect vitrifaction.
1845. Lady Eastlake, Jrnls. & Corr., I. 163. We now come nearer into granite Edinburgh: such petrifactions or vitrifactions, of houses.
1888. Encycl. Brit., XXIV. 264/2. In Scandinavia, where there are hundreds of ordinary forts,… no trace of vitrifaction has yet been detected.
