v. Obs.–1 [ad. L. frīgēfact-āre, f. frīgē-re to be cold + fact- ppl. stem of facĕre to make.] trans. To chill. So † Frigefacted ppl. a. [see -ED1], made frigid; † Frigefaction [see -ION or -TION], the action or process of chilling; † Frigefactive a. [see -IVE], chilling.
1599. A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physicke, 21/2. If it be a Foote, or a Legge which is in this sorte frigefactede, I then take my beginninge of circumvolutione, at the knees, to the bodye vpwardes, & reasonable stiflye alsoe.
1651. Biggs, New Disp., ¶ 192. Hath not the northern pole of frigefactive and positive power for its Horizon.
a. 1656. Ussher, Ann. VI. (1658), 279. Taking a huge draught of frigifacted wine after it, felt himself presently not well, and upon the seventh day after, died of it.
1656. Blount Glossogr., Frigefaction, a making cool.
1660. H. More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness, VII. xv. 340. Saturn hinders the warm influence of the other Starres, and is in an high degree frigefactive, as also exsiccative.
1673. Phil. Trans., VIII. 6132. All these to be further examined by Contusion, Agitation, Frigefaction. Ibid. (1684), XIV. 769. The severity of the Air’s frigefactive power.
