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frigorific, a. Physics.|frɪgəˈrɪfɪk|
[a. F. frigorifique, ad. L. frīgorific-us cooling: see prec. and -fic.]
Producing cold, freezing; cooling.
1667Boyle in Phil. Trans. II. 608 A strongly frigorifick mixture of Ice and Salt. 1685― Effects of Mot. iv. 41 The Atomists ascribe the freezing of water to the ingress of multitudes of frigorifick corpuscles. 1789Chron. in Ann. Reg. 195/1 Quicksilver was again completely frozen..in a frigorific mixture. 1820Scoresby Acc. Arctic Reg. I. 364 Data for determining the frigorific effect of the ice on the temperature of the Pole. 1863Tyndall Heat x. 277 Rumford maintained with great tenacity the existence of ‘frigorific rays’.
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1751Johnson Rambler No. 159 ⁋7 Knowledge and virtue remain too long congealed by this frigorifick power. 1810Shelley Zastrozzi xiv, A frigorific torpidity of despair chilled every sense. 1867Bushnell Mor. Uses Dark Th. 195 Their moral nature wants the true frigorific tension of a well-wintered life and experience. |