Home › Words › R › rubificationrubificationrubification means the act of making red.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, rubification ranks #16,750 of 42,762 for Qualifying.EtymologyCompare French rubification.nounThe act of making red.e.g.“all the degrees and effects of fire, as distillation , sublimation , mortification , calcination , solution , descension , dealbation , rubification , and fixation” — 1655, James Howell, “To Sir L. Dives”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).