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† conˈglaciate, v. Obs.
[f. ppl. stem of L. conglaciā-re to freeze up, f. con- together + glaciāre to make or turn to ice, f. glaciēs ice.]
1. trans. To convert into ice, to freeze.
1686Goad Celest. Bodies ii. ix. 284 Our Colledge Ale..being conglaciated,..upon a Thaw never returned to its self. Ibid. ii. xii. 322 The Salt invigorating the Cold of the Water, and so conglaciating the snow.
b. To make solid like ice (by other means than cold); to congeal, petrify.
1660H. More Myst. Godl. vi. ix. 234 Thunder..conglaciates or makes rigid, fluid or soft bodies.
c. To make smooth like ice or glass, to polish.
1656H. More Antid. Ath. iii. xvi. (1712) 140 To conglaciate and polish the surfaces of the clouds to such an extraordinary accuracy of figure.
2. intr. To become ice, to freeze, congeal.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. i. 50 Neither doth..any thing properly conglaciate but water. 1670Phil. Trans. V. 2023 The Water..did by the operation of the introduced cold..totally conglaciate. 1808J. Barlow Columb. vi. 169 The waves conglaciate instant.
Hence conˈglaciated, conˈglaciating ppl. adjs.
1656H. More Enthus. Tri. 43 The Moon is of a conglaciated substance. 1660― Myst. Godl. vi. viii. 233 Of conglaciating Thunders, and the transmutation of Lot's wife into a pillar of Salt. 1750G. Hughes Barbadoes 56, I went down into several of these Caves..[to find] the petrified conglaciated substances. |