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glaciate, v.|ˈgleɪʃɪeɪt|
[f. L. glaciāt- ppl. stem of glaciāre to freeze, f. glaciēs ice.]
†1.
a. intr. (See quot.)
b. trans. To freeze.
a.1623Cockeram, Glaciate, to be frozen, to turne to Ice. 1755in Johnson; and in later Dicts.
b.1656Blount Glossogr., Glaciate, to congeal or freeze, to turn to ice. 1665[see glaciating]. 1721in Bailey.
2. Geol. Only in pass. pple. glaciated.
a. Rubbed or polished by glacial action.
1865Reader 9 Sept. 297 All that we know at present..is that they have been glaciated in some form. 1876Davis Polaris Exp. App. 661 Rocky surfaces which have once been glaciated, if I may thus express the peculiar action of ice upon rocks..can never be mistaken for anything else. 1894Chamb. Jrnl. 1 Sept. 556 Some of the paving flags are basalt blocks, perhaps glaciated.
b. Covered with ice; furnished with glaciers.
1880A. R. Wallace Isl. Life vii. 108 The comparatively small Heard Island is even now glaciated down to the sea. 1887H. Howorth Mammoth xx, I do not believe..in the possibility of tropical America being so glaciated that the valley of the Amazon was filled with ice.
3. techn. ‘To give an ice-like or frosted appearance to’ (Cent. Dict. 1889).
1887U.S. Consular Rep. XXI. 215 (Cent.) [Iron] chimneys, oven, etc...not enamelled, glaciated, or tinned.
Hence ˈglaciated, ˈglaciating ppl. adjs.
1665Phil. Trans. I. 48 What change was produced in it [water] betwixt the hottest time of Summer and first glaciating degree of Cold. 1861H. Macmillan Footnotes fr. Nature 76 The..deep striæ or flutings peculiar to glaciated surfaces. 1875J. Croll Climate & T. xiv. 233 But when the glaciated hemisphere began to grow warmer [etc.]. 1881Nature XXIII. 281 The glaciating agent has swept completely..over it. 1887Academy 26 Nov. 355 Those fertile mountain spots met with in all glaciated countries. |