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frigify

/ˈfɹɪd͡ʒɪfaɪ/

frigify verb: to make cold or frigid.

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete) 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 Rheumes”, in Oswaldus Gabelhover, translated by Charles Batrus, The Boock of Phyſicke […] , volume 1, Dorte: Isaac Caen, page 10
    • 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 Crete, G. P. Putnam, page 66

Forms of frigify

third-person singular presentfrigifies
present participlefrigifying
past participlefrigified
pastfrigified
alternative formfrigefy

Origin of frigify

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

Questions about frigify

What does frigify mean?
Frigify means to make cold or frigid.
What part of speech is frigify?
Frigify is a verb.
How do you pronounce frigify?
Frigify is pronounced /ˈfɹɪd͡ʒɪfaɪ/.
What is the past tense of frigify?
The past tense of frigify is frigified.

Words near frigify in the dictionary

  1. frigidization
  2. frigidly
  3. frigidness
  4. frigified
  5. frigifies
  6. frigify
  7. frigifying
  8. Frigo
  9. frigocyclinone
  10. frigolabile
  11. frigophilic

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