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frigefactive

frigefactive adjective: cooling.

Adjective

frigefactive (comparative more frigefactive, superlative most frigefactive)

  1. (obsolete) Cooling.
    • In order to the diſcovery of ſome hints of the account, upon which the above mentioned mixtures were more intenſely frigefactive than ſnow alone, we ſealed up a ſingle vial of ſnow unmingled with any other ingredient, and found it to thaw much more ſlowly than any of thoſe parcels of ſnow, which we...1663, Robert Boyle, “Title I. Experiments Touching Bodies Capable of Freezing Others.”, in New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, or, An Experimental History of Cold, Begun. […], London: […]...
    • […]Saturn hinders the warm influence of the other Stars, and is in a high degree frigefactive, as also exſiccative1681, Henry More, Tetractys Anti-Astrologica

Antonyms of frigefactive

Forms of frigefactive

comparativemore frigefactive
superlativemost frigefactive

Questions about frigefactive

What does frigefactive mean?
Frigefactive means cooling.
What part of speech is frigefactive?
Frigefactive is an adjective.

Words near frigefactive in the dictionary

  1. frigates
  2. frigatoon
  3. frigatoons
  4. frigefaction
  5. frigefactions
  6. frigefactive
  7. frigefied
  8. frigefies
  9. frigefy
  10. frigefying
  11. frigerate

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