Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To obtain mercury from (metallic minerals), as by the application of intense heat, which expels the mercury in fumes that are afterward condensed.
  • To combine or mingle with mercury; mercurialize.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb rare To obtain mercury from, as mercuric minerals, which may be done by any application of intense heat that expels the mercury in fumes, which are afterward condensed.
  • transitive verb rare To combine or mingle mercury with; to impregnate with mercury; to mercurialize.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb rare, transitive To obtain mercury from (a mineral, etc.).
  • verb rare, transitive To combine or mingle mercury with; to impregnate with mercury.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

mercury +‎ -fy

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