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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from New Latin frīgēficō, frīgēficāre, causative of Classical frīgeō.
Pronunciation
Verb
frigify (third-person singular simple present frigifies, present participle frigifying, simple past and past participle frigified)
- (obsolete) To make cold or frigid.
1599, “For the Rheumes”, in Oswaldus Gabelhover, translated by Charles Batrus, The Boock of Phyſicke , volume 1, Dorte: Isaac Caen, page 10:[…] 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.
1859, Bayard Taylor, “The Court of King Otho”, in Travels in Greece and Russia, with an Excursion to Crete, G. P. Putnam, page 66:I saw at once that modern conventionalities would not be able to frigify such a mass as was here thrown together […]
1880 January 15, “First Special Excursion to the Lakes”, in Otago Daily Times, number 5586, supplement, page 1:Is It true, though fathomless, that at certain depths thy cold is so intense as to frigify any animal submerged?