Meanings
present singular third person frigerates · participle present frigerating · participle past frigerated · past frigerated
- 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 1363 more examples
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 35The 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 130Further, 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
- Latinfrīgerātus
- 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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