frigorific

Adjective

frigorific (comparative more frigorific, superlative most frigorific)

1. Causing to chill or cool.
   • [W]hen vve have, as vve very frequently have, put mixtures of ſnovv and ſalt into vials, and left them in the open Air, vve generally obſerv'd, that the outſide of the Glaſs vvas cas'd vvith ice, or covered vvith hoar froſt, directly over againſt that part of the inſide of the Glaſs, vvherein the...1663, Robert Boyle, “Title V. Experiments Touching the Tendency of Cold Upwards or Downwards.”, in New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, or, An Experimental History of Cold, Begun. […]...
   • "Pr. LOWITZ has discovered a single frigorific mixture, by which quicksilver may be frozen..."1801, Richard Walker, “On the Production of artificial Cold by Means of Muriate of Lime,”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, page 124

   Antonyms:

   calorific