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tepify

tepify verb: to make tepid (lukewarm); to moderately warm.

Verb

tepify (third-person singular simple present tepifies, present participle tepifying, simple past and past participle tepified)

  1. To make tepid (lukewarm); to moderately warm.
    • There are five hundred different forts of Cephalic Snuffs, to refresh, refrigerate, tepify, or dry up the moist humours of the brain : - There are the noble Opthalmic Tinctures, to clean, […]1752, Have at you all: or, The Drury-lane journal, by madam Roxana Termagant, page 164
    • To the Pyrites we may also attribute the Effects of the 5th Experiment, for their very Nature is to tepify Waters, whenever there is an inward Motion excited (which we have called the mineral Ferment) provided there are no Salts or other Admixtures present, to prevent the ensuing Heat[…]1756, Diederick Wessel Linden, A Treatise on the Three Medicinal Mineral Waters at Llandrindod, page 265

Examples of tepify in a sentence

  • The most that should ever be done is to tepify the mixture slightly , if it is feared that the first shock of the cold on the skin might injure or annoy the patient .1834, Jean Marc Bourgery, A Treatise on Lesser Surgery: Or, The Minor Surgical Operations, page 63:
  • Meantime as vital tumours tepify, And tender bones and body putrefy, Behold! reanimation will begin; […]1866, Virgil, translated by J. B. Rose, The Ecolgues and Georgics, page 129:

Forms of tepify

third-person singular presenttepifies
present participletepifying
past participletepified
pasttepified

Questions about tepify

What does tepify mean?
Tepify means to make tepid (lukewarm); to moderately warm.
How do you use tepify in a sentence?
The most that should ever be done is to tepify the mixture slightly , if it is feared that the first shock of the cold on the skin might injure or annoy the patient .
What part of speech is tepify?
Tepify is a verb.
What is the past tense of tepify?
The past tense of tepify is tepified.

Words near tepify in the dictionary

  1. tepidity
  2. tepidly
  3. tepidness
  4. tepified
  5. tepifies
  6. tepify
  7. tepifying
  8. Tepiman
  9. tepin
  10. teplizumab
  11. Teplodar

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