v. [f. as prec. + -(I)FY.] trans. To make fluid.
1851–9. Darwin, in Man. Sci. Enq., 283. It is now known that granitic rocks, which have been fluidified (as may be told by their sending great veins into, and including fragments of, the overlying rocks), are foliated in a more or less perfect degree.
1859. R. B. Todd, The Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology, V. 280/2. This fluid condenses, fluidifies the respiratory gases in transitu.
Hence Fluidified ppl. a.; also Fluidification, the action of making fluid; Fluidifier, an agent that fluidifies.
1837. S. Smith, Philos. Health, II. x. 160–1. The plant can only take up, by absorption, liquid food; it never receives solid substances as aliment: it therefore needs no apparatus for the division, solution, and fluidification of its food.
1842. Darwin, Geol. Observ., II. xiv. (1876), 500. That the fluidified granite was once encased, its mineralogical composition and structure, and the bold conical shape of the mountain-masses, yield sufficient evidence.
1876. Bartholow, Mat. Med. (1879), 235. The alvine dejections are more fluid and increased in number, and consist at first of fluidified fæces.
1876. Garrod, Treat. Gout (ed. 3), 407. Bicarbonate of soda, when thus administered, becomes rapidly absorbed into the blood, exalts its natural alkalinity, and, if long continued, causes a species of solution of the blood, and hence medicines of this class have been called fluidifiers, antiplastics, and deobstruents.
