infrigidate

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈfɹɪd͡ʒɪdeɪt/

Verb

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

1. (transitive, obsolete) To make (something) cold; to chill.
   • 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:

     […] 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; […]

Related terms

• infrigidation

 

References

• “infrigidate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Verb

īnfrīgidāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of īnfrīgidō