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tepefy, v.|ˈtɛpɪfaɪ| Also tepify. [f. L. tepefacĕre to make tepid, f. tepē-re to be lukewarm: see -fy.] a. trans. To make tepid or moderately warm; to warm. b. intr. To become tepid.
1656Blount Glossogr., Tepefie.., to make warme. 1745Cooper Power Harm. i. 17 The flood of life, Loos'd at its source by tepefying strains. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1862) II. iii. ii. 323 Except..the shallows at the edges of the stream become tepified by the..rays of the sun. 1847Webster, Tepefy, v. i. To become moderately warm. 1866J. B. Rose Virg. Ecl. & Georg. 129 As vital humours tepify. |