frigify

F4R1I1G2I1F4Y4
/ˈfɹɪd͡ʒɪfaɪ/

verb

To make cold or frigid.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

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

present singular third person frigifies · participle present frigifying · participle past frigified · past frigified · alternative frigefy

  1. obsoleteTo make cold or frigid.

    Is It true, though fathomless, that at certain depths thy cold is so intense as to frigify any animal submerged?

    1880 January 15, “First Special Excursion to the Lakes”, in Otago Daily Times, number 5586, supplement, page 1
    2 more examples

    […]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.

    1599, “For the Rheumes”, in Oswaldus Gabelhover, translated by Charles Batrus, The Boock of Phyſicke […] , volume 1, Dorte: Isaac Caen, page 10

    I saw at once that modern conventionalities would not be able to frigify such a mass as was here thrown together[…]

    1859, Bayard Taylor, “The Court of King Otho”, in Travels in Greece and Russia, with an Excursion to Crete, G. P. Putnam, page 66

Origin

  1. New Latinfrīgēficō, frīgēficāre
  2. Englishfrigify

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

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Chicago

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