Verb (used with object), : a distant fire that rubified the sky.    From Dictionary.com. 

What is this thou sendest to say to me with thy "rubify me" and thy "minions"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference

He had heard him indeed speak of 'rubify me' and 'minions,' but knew not what this meant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference

Filippo, who, hearing the message and being lightly ruffled, concluded that Biondello, whom he knew, had a mind to make mock of him, and waxing all red in the face, said, 'What "rubify me" and what "minions" be these?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference

Messer Filippo Argenti, a big burly rawboned fellow and the most despiteful, choleric and humoursome man alive, gave him a great glass flagon and said to him, 'Go to yonder gentleman with this flask in hand and say to him, "Sir Biondello sendeth me to you and prayeth you be pleased to rubify him this flask with your good red wine, for that he would fain make merry somedele with his minions.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference