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单词 congelative
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congelativeadj.

/ˈkɒndʒɪleɪtɪv/
Etymology: < French congelatif, -ive (16th cent. in Littré), < Latin congelāt- participial stem + -ive suffix.
Obsolete.
a. Having the quality of congealing; tending to congeal; tending to crystallize, or to produce calcareous deposits, stalactites, etc.
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1594 H. Plat Diuerse Sorts of Soyle 24 in Jewell House This generatiue, and congelatiue water, which I call the fift element.
1620 T. Venner Via Recta Introd. 3 Aire too cold is of a congelatiue power.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xix. 794 This [powder] being deprived of its Congelative Salts, resumes the former species of Quick-silver.
1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 230 Among the common Water there is another which I call germinative, for Plants; congelative, for Minerals.
b. n. (See quot. 1823.)
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1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Congelatives, medicines which refrigerate and inspissate.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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