v. Obs. [f. ppl. stem of L. conglaciā-re to freeze up, f. con- together + glaciāre to make or turn to ice, f. glaciēs ice.]
1. trans. To convert into ice, to freeze.
1686. Goad, Celest. Bodies, II. ix. 284. Our Colledge Ale … being conglaciated,… upon a Thaw never returned to its self. Ibid., II. xii. 322. The Salt invigorating the Cold of the Water, and so conglaciating the snow.
b. To make solid like ice (by other means than cold); to congeal, petrify.
1660. H. More, Myst. Godl., VI. ix. 234. Thunder … conglaciates or makes rigid, fluid or soft bodies.
c. To make smooth like ice or glass, to polish.
1656. H. More, Antid. Ath., III. xvi. (1712), 140. To conglaciate and polish the surfaces of the clouds to such an extraordinary accuracy of figure.
2. intr. To become ice, to freeze, congeal.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., II. i. 50. Neither doth … any thing properly conglaciate but water.
1670. Phil. Trans., V. 2023. The Water … did by the operation of the introduced cold … totally conglaciate.
1808. J. Barlow, Columb., VI. 169. The waves conglaciate instant.
Hence Conglaciated, Conglaciating ppl. adjs.
1656. H. More, Enthus. Tri., 43. The Moon is of a conglaciated substance. Ibid. (1660), Myst. Godl., VI. viii. 233. Of conglaciating Thunders, and the transmutation of Lot’s wife into a pillar of Salt.
1750. G. Hughes, Barbadoes, 56. I went down into several of these Caves … [to find] the petrified conglaciated substances.
