[f. ELECTRIFY v. after L. nouns of action in -ficātio.]
1. The action or process of electrifying; subjection to the electric current.
1748. Phil. Trans., XLV. 194. An Electrification of five or six Hours. Ibid. (1750), XLVI. 385. The Prelate was not cured; and since the Electrification … had been as he was before.
1881. A. Macfarlane, in Nature, XXIV. 465/1. After a few electrifications … particles collect to form a chain.
2. The state or condition of a body charged with electricity.
1787. Phil. Trans., LXXVII. 29. The electrification of fogs and rain.
1878. Gurney, Crystallogr., 114. The electrifications of the glass and the resin are of opposite kinds.
1881. Maxwell, Electr. & Magn., I. 32. It is the … practice … to call the vitreous electrification positive, and the resinous electrification negative.
