frigify

To make cold or frigid.

Verb

  1. To make cold or frigid.
    • […]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. - 1599, “For the...
    • I saw at once that modern conventionalities would not be able to frigify such a mass as was here thrown together[…] - 1859, Bayard Taylor, “The Court of King Otho”, in Travels in Greece and Russia, with an Excursion to...
    • Is It true, though fathomless, that at certain depths thy cold is so intense as to frigify any animal submerged? - 1880 January 15, “First Special Excursion to the Lakes”, in Otago Daily Times, number 5586, supplement,...

Origin

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

Forms

frigifies frigifying frigified frigefy