v. Also tepify. [f. L. tepefacĕre to make tepid, f. tepē-re to be lukewarm: see -FY.] a. trans. To make tepid or moderately warm; to warm. b. intr. To become tepid.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Tepefie..., to make warme.
1745. Cooper, Power Harm., I. 17. The flood of life, Loos’d at its source by tepefying strains.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1862), II. III. ii. 323. Except … the shallows at the edges of the stream become tepified by the … rays of the sun.
1847. Webster, Tepefy, v. i. To become moderately warm.
1866. J. B. Rose, Virg. Ecl. & Georg., 129. As vital humours tepify.
