frigorific
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of frigorific
1660–70; < Latin frīgorificus cooling, equivalent to frīgor- (stem of frīgus ) cold + -i- -i- + -ficus -fic
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Rumford's views respecting frigorific rays have not been generally accepted, and Prevost's theory of exchanges completely explains the apparent radiation of cold without supposing that cold is anything else than the mere absence of heat.
From Heroes of Science: Physicists by William Garnett
Upon substituting balls of snow for heated bodies, they even went so far as to prove that frigorific foci may be formed by way of reflection.
From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Robert Grant
This refrigerator is like those which we employ in our sulphurous anhydride frigorific apparatus.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 by Various
It is the chilling influence of the ethereal stream which originated the idea among philosophers, of frigorific impressions, darted from a clear sky.
From Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence by Thomas Bassnett
When Verezzi's senses are "chilled with the frigorific torpidity of despair," his eyes "roll horribly in their sockets."
From The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance by Edith Birkhead
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