frigify

frigify

English

Alternative forms

• frigefy

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin frīgēficō, frīgēficāre, causative of Classical frīgeō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɪd͡ʒɪfaɪ/

Verb

frigify (third-person singular simple present frigifies, present participle frigifying, simple past and past participle frigified)

1. (obsolete) To make cold or frigid.
   • 1599, “For the Rheumes”, in Oswaldus Gabelhover; Charles Batrus, transl., 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?