a. [f. L. auri- gold + -fic-us making: cf. mod.F. aurifique.] Producing gold.
1667. Boyle, Orig. Formes & Qual. An Aurifick Powder.
1671. J. Webster, Metallogr., xxix. 365. Seed of an aurifick or argentifick nature.
1881. in Syd. Soc. Lex.