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Etymology

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Compare French réfrigératoire.

Noun

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refrigeratory (plural refrigeratories)

  1. (dated) That which refrigerates or cools.
    1. In distillation, a vessel filled with cold water, surrounding the worm, the vapour in which is thereby condensed.
    2. The chamber, or tank, in which ice is formed, in an ice machine.

Adjective

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refrigeratory (comparative more refrigeratory, superlative most refrigeratory)

  1. Mitigating heat; cooling.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for refrigeratory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)