Producing or capable of producing gold; gold-making or gold-generating.
From Latin aurum (gold) with the suffix -fic, meaning 'making' or 'producing' (from facere, to make). This rare term appears in alchemical texts and obsolete scientific literature.
Alchemists dreamed of aurific processes—ways to turn base metals into gold—and while they failed at that, they accidentally invented chemistry, glassmaking, and metallurgy in pursuit of the impossible dream.
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