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refrigerative, a. and n.|rɪˈfrɪdʒərətɪv|
[prob. ad. med.L. *refrīgerātīvus: see refrigerate v. and -ive, and cf. F. réfrigératif (14th c., Oresme).]
A. adj. Tending to cool, refrigerant.
1558–66Warde tr. Alexis' Secr. iii. i. 49 It [a plaster] is repercussiue, refrigeratiue and desiccatiue. 1601Holland Pliny II. 24 All Lectuces are by nature refrigeratiue, and do coole the body. 1665J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 82 Lead hath naturally commixt with it a certain Mineral..of such a refrigerative Quality, as in a very short Time it will consume even the Metal it self. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Cookoo bread, This Plant is refrigerative like Sorrel. 1852Patents Abridgm. 1819–66 (1877) 16 Improvements in machinery applicable to the manufacture of ice and to refrigerative purposes generally.
B. n. A cooling medicine. rare—0.
1706in Phillips (ed. Kersey). 1727–41in Chambers Cycl. and in later Dicts.
Hence reˈfrigerativeness.
1731in Bailey vol. II. (ed. 2). |