infrigidate

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/ɪnˈfɹɪd͡ʒɪdeɪt/

verb

To make (something) cold; to chill.

OriginLatin infrigidatus →
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Meanings

verbinfrigidate (third-person singular simple present infrigidates, present participle infrigidating, simple past and past participle infrigidated)

present singular third person infrigidates · participle present infrigidating · participle past infrigidated · past infrigidated

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo make (something) cold; to chill.

    […] I vvas not deceived in expecting, that the dry ſalt, remaining in the pipkins, being rediſſolved in a due proportion of vvater, vvould very conſiderably infrigidate it; […]

    1666 July 29 (Gregorian calendar), Robert Boyle, “A New Frigorifick Experiment, Shewing How a Considerable Degree of Cold may be Suddenly Produced without the Help of Snow, Ice, Hail, Wind, or Nitre, and that at any Time of the Year. […]”, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. […], volume II, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], published 1744, →OCLC, page 549, column 2

Origin

  1. Latininfrigidatus
  2. Englishinfrigidate

From Latin infrigidatus, past participle of infrigidare (“to chill”). See in- and frigid.

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infrigidate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/infrigidate

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“infrigidate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/infrigidate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “infrigidate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/infrigidate.

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