Sanguifications

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The process of causing or producing blood or blood-like fluid ; the act of inducing a state characterized by blood flow or redness ; a figurative term for instilling vigor or passion like the flow of blood
2. A term describing the generation or creation of blood or blood-related substances ; the action of exciting or inflaming a bodily or emotional state through the symbolism of blood ; the metaphorical concept of energizing or enlivening by means similar to blood circulation
3. The condition or act of forming or influencing blood or sanguine qualities ; the effect of promoting warmth, vitality, or excited temperament akin to bloody redness ; a descriptive notion for imbuing physical or emotional states with lifeblood or spirited intensity

Etymology: "Sanguifications" is the plural of "sanguification," a noun meaning the making of blood. It comes from New Latin "sanguificatio," a coinage built from Latin "sanguis" ("blood") and the suffix "-ficatio," which denotes the act of making something. The same formation produced French "sanguification," so the term passed between scholarly languages in the same way that medical and physiological vocabulary often did. The word is a technical formation rather than an ancient one: it was built on Latin roots in the early modern period, when scholars wanted precise names for bodily processes. Its base is "sanguify," a verb meaning to turn into blood, to which the noun ending "-ication" is attached. Writers used the plural form when discussing several such processes or stages of blood production in the body.