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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from New Latin frīgēficō, frīgēficāre, causative of Classical frīgeō.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfɹɪd͡ʒɪfaɪ/

Verb

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frigify (third-person singular simple present frigifies, present participle frigifying, simple past and past participle frigified)

  1. (obsolete) To make cold or frigid.
    • 1599, “For the Rheumes”, in Oswaldus Gabelhover, translated by Charles Batrus, The Boock of Phyſicke [] [1], volume 1, Dorte: Isaac Caen, page 10:
      [] then frigify it, & reſerve it in a pot, & drinck heerof thrice a vveecke, at Even, and at Morne, a ſpoone full, this corrobarateth the Braynes, and is adiuvable to the Memorye, and cauſeth Sleep.
    • 1859, Bayard Taylor, “The Court of King Otho”, in Travels in Greece and Russia, with an Excursion to Crete[2], G. P. Putnam, page 66:
      I saw at once that modern conventionalities would not be able to frigify such a mass as was here thrown together []
    • 1880 January 15, “First Special Excursion to the Lakes”, in Otago Daily Times[3], number 5586, supplement, page 1:
      Is It true, though fathomless, that at certain depths thy cold is so intense as to frigify any animal submerged?