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; […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “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
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