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frigerate

frigerate verb: to make cool.

Verb

frigerate (third-person singular simple present frigerates, present participle frigerating, simple past and past participle frigerated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To make cool.
    • Miss Leeson by no means deserves the phillipic you have so unmercifully bestowed upon her, for she has seriously and peremptorily refused the honourable asylum I again, in your presence, offer her; and I am persuaded, when you have suffered your temper to frigerate, you will be as eager to...1814, Ann of Swansea, Conviction; or, She is innocent!, page 35
    • The river-water, which is drunk here, is impure, until after filtration, or precipitation by alum; and luke-warm, unless frigerated in porous-jars.1824, Henry Cogswell Knight, Letters from the South and West, page 130

Forms of frigerate

third-person singular presentfrigerates
present participlefrigerating
past participlefrigerated
pastfrigerated

Origin of frigerate

First attested in 1656; borrowed from Latin frīgerātus, perfect passive participle of frīgerō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from frigus (“cold”).

Questions about frigerate

What does frigerate mean?
Frigerate means to make cool.
What part of speech is frigerate?
Frigerate is a verb.
What is the past tense of frigerate?
The past tense of frigerate is frigerated.

Words near frigerate in the dictionary

  1. frigefactive
  2. frigefied
  3. frigefies
  4. frigefy
  5. frigefying
  6. frigerate
  7. frigerated
  8. frigerates
  9. frigerating
  10. frigerator
  11. frigerators

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