frigerate
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From Latin frigerare, from frigus (“cold”).
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frigerate (third-person singular simple present frigerates, present participle frigerating, simple past and past participle frigerated)
- (obsolete, transitive) To make cool.
- 1814, Ann of Swansea, Conviction; or, She is innocent!, page 35:
- Miss Leeson by no means deserves the phillipic you have so unmercifully bestowed upon her, for she has seriously and peremptorily refused the honourable asylum I again, in your presence, offer her; and I am persuaded, when you have suffered your temper to frigerate, you will be as eager to apologize as you have been to condemn.
- 1824, Henry Cogswell Knight, Letters from the South and West, page 130:
- The river-water, which is drunk here, is impure, until after filtration, or precipitation by alum; and luke-warm, unless frigerated in porous-jars.
- 1849, William Valentine, A Budget of Wit and Humour, page 136:
- Lecture fifth and sixth will embrace a longitudinal procreative digest, for consolidating immateriality in frigerated solution.
- 1891, The Federal Reporter, volume 46, page 771:
- Further, I am aware that chloride of calcium has been exposed in a frigerating chamber to absorb moisture from the air therein; […]
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frīgerāte