frigorificadj.
/frɪɡəˈrɪfɪk/ Physics.
a. Producing cold, freezing; cooling.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [adjective] > making cold or cool
chilling?a1400
cooling?c1425
infrigidative?1541
refrigerating1583
frigefying1599
refrigerative1603
infrigidating1650
frigefactive1651
algifical1656
frigorifical1656
frigidative1659
frigorific1668
refrigeratory1676
algific1708
refrigerant1766
air-cooling1832
frigorifying1851
1668 R. Boyle in Philos. Trans. 1667 (Royal Soc.) 2 608 A strongly frigorifick mixture of Ice and Salt.
1685 R. Boyle Ess. Effects of Motion iv. 41 The Atomists ascribe the freezing of water to the ingress of multitudes of frigorifick corpuscles.
1792 Ann. Reg. 1789 Chron. 195/1 Quicksilver was again completely frozen..in a frigorific mixture.
1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions I. 364 Data for determining the frigorific effect of the ice on the temperature of the Pole.
1863 J. Tyndall Heat x. 277 Rumford maintained with great tenacity the existence of ‘frigorific rays’.
b. figurative.
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1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 159. ⁋7 Knowledge and virtue remain too long congealed by this frigorifick power.
1810 P. B. Shelley Zastrozzi xiv. 202 A frigorific torpidity of despair chilled every sense.
1867 H. Bushnell Moral Uses Dark Things 195 Their moral nature wants the true frigorific tension of a well-wintered life and experience.
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