frigerate

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verb

To make cool.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

verbfrigerate (third-person singular simple present frigerates, present participle frigerating, simple past and past participle frigerated)

present singular third person frigerates · participle present frigerating · participle past frigerated · past frigerated

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo make cool.

    Lecture fifth and sixth will embrace a longitudinal procreative digest, for consolidating immateriality in frigerated solution.

    1849, William Valentine, A Budget of Wit and Humour, page 136
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    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.

    1814, Ann of Swansea, Conviction; or, She is innocent!, page 35

    The river-water, which is drunk here, is impure, until after filtration, or precipitation by alum; and luke-warm, unless frigerated in porous-jars.

    1824, Henry Cogswell Knight, Letters from the South and West, page 130

    Further, I am aware that chloride of calcium has been exposed in a frigerating chamber to absorb moisture from the air therein; […]

    1891, The Federal Reporter, volume 46, page 771

Origin

  1. Latinfrīgerātus
  2. Englishfrigerate

First attested in 1656; borrowed from Latin frīgerātus, perfect passive participle of frīgerō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from frigus (“cold”).

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