liquefactio

lĭquĕfactĭo, ōnis, f., = liquatio (late Lat.), Inc. Auct. de Tripl. Habit. 2.

liquefactio [ML] 1 act of making liquid, melting, dissolving, liquefaction. si sit multum [calidus] et parum humidus ‥ ex pauco humiditate non potest fieri mollificatio et ~o Quaest. Salern. B 163; positus sal in oleo vel melle, non liquefit similiter ‥ quare liquide et subtiles partes olei subintrare non possunt, quarum interpositione inter partes et partes salis fieret separatio et ~o Ib. Ba 108; ~onem zuccari Gilb. I 31v. 1; propter naturam aque, que subjectum est ~onis [v. l. que subest ~oni] in spiritu Bacon NM 546; Duns Ord. II 334 (v. coagulabilis); 1453 computat in perdicione et vastura super ~onem ejusdem [cepi] Ac. H. Buckingham 41; 1508 item cerefactori pro ~one x li. cere v d. DCCant. LitMs/C/11 f. 118a. 2 act of treating with liquid, lubrication. 1586 pro stuffur’ et ~one de iiij de les barehides veter’ [ib. 5/36 p. 11: stuffing and lycoring of iij old barehides] Ac. LChamb. 9/77 f. 10. 3 act of making clear, purifying (fig.). usque ad totius anime mee ~onem delectata sum J. Ford Serm. 89. 4.