tepify

present singular third person tepifies · participle present tepifying · participle past tepified · past tepified

1. To make tepid (lukewarm); to moderately warm.

   Meantime as vital tumours tepify, And tender bones and body putrefy, Behold! reanimation will begin; […]

   1866, Virgil, translated by J. B. Rose, The Ecolgues and Georgics, page 129

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   There are five hundred different forts of Cephalic Snuffs, to refresh, refrigerate, tepify, or dry up the moist humours of the brain : - There are the noble Opthalmic Tinctures, to clean, […]

   1752, Have at you all: or, The Drury-lane journal, by madam Roxana Termagant, page 164

   To the Pyrites we may also attribute the Effects of the 5th Experiment, for their very Nature is to tepify Waters, whenever there is an inward Motion excited (which we have called the mineral Ferment) provided there are no Salts or other Admixtures present, to prevent the ensuing Heat[…]

   1756, Diederick Wessel Linden, A Treatise on the Three Medicinal Mineral Waters at Llandrindod, page 265

   The most that should ever be done is to tepify the mixture slightly , if it is feared that the first shock of the cold on the skin might injure or annoy the patient .

   1834, Jean Marc Bourgery, A Treatise on Lesser Surgery: Or, The Minor Surgical Operations, page 63