frigerate

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English

Etymology

From Latin frigerare, from frigus (cold).

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To make cool.
    • 1814, Ann of Swansea, Conviction; or, She is innocent!, page 35:
      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.
    • 1824, Henry Cogswell Knight, Letters from the South and West, page 130:
      The river-water, which is drunk here, is impure, until after filtration, or precipitation by alum; and luke-warm, unless frigerated in porous-jars.
    • 1849, William Valentine, A Budget of Wit and Humour, page 136:
      Lecture fifth and sixth will embrace a longitudinal procreative digest, for consolidating immateriality in frigerated solution.
    • 1891, The Federal Reporter, volume 46, page 771:
      Further, I am aware that chloride of calcium has been exposed in a frigerating chamber to absorb moisture from the air therein; []

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

frīgerāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of frīgerō