▪ I. reˈfrigerate, ppl. a. Now rare.
[ad. L. refrīgerātus, pa. pple. of refrīgerāre: see next.]
Made or kept cold, cooled. † Also const. from.
| c 1420 Pallad. on Husb. vii. 62 Nowe benes..Made clene, and sette up wel refrigerate, From grobbes save wol kepe up thaire estate. 1483 Caxton Gold. Leg. 108 b/1 He was colde and refrigerat fro all concupyscence of the flesshe. a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VII 16 b, Their fury was asswaged and refrigerate. 1647 A. Ross Mystag. Poet. iii. (1675) 62 When the stomachical nerves are too much refrigerate. 1896 Westm. Gaz. 15 Dec. 3/1 Antiquity has become doubly refrigerate. |
▪ II. refrigerate, v.
(rɪˈfrɪdʒəreɪt)
[ad. L. refrīgerāt-, ppl. stem of refrīgerāre, f. re- re- + frīgerāre: see frigerate v. Cf. F. réfrigérer (16th c.).]
1. trans. To cause to become cold, to cool: a. the body or its parts, or heat in these.
| 1534 More Comf. agst. Trib. ii. Wks. 1179/1 Y⊇ shadow of hys holy shoulders, which are brode & large, sufficient to refrigerate & refreshe the man in that heate. 1545 T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde 82 These medycynes do refrigerate and coole the vehement heate wont to be in apostumes. 1615 Crooke Body of Man 24 Where he saith..that the Braine was made onely to refrigerate or coole the heart. 1668 H. More Div. Dial. i. 481 The gentle fresh morning Air..refrigerating my bloud and spirits. 1797 J. Downing Disord. Horned Cattle 69 This medicine..refrigerates the heat of the blood. 1833 Cycl. Pract. Med. I. 247 Not..with the view of refrigerating the surface, but of suddenly cutting short the disease. |
| absol. 1612 Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 75 Camphora..refrigerateth and calefieth. 1658 Rowland tr. Moufet's Theat. Ins. 1000 They do refrigerate and bind,..and help the weakness of the stomach. |
b. the air, earth, or other things.
| 1637 Saltonstall Eusebius' Constantine 139 The ayre, which from on high descends downe to refrigerate and coole the world. a 1691 Boyle Hist. Air (1692) 164 He was able to find..that part of the beer or the wine that was next to the sides of the bottle to be refrigerated. 1777 G. Forster Voy. round World II. 493 The air was refrigerated by the abundance of snow on the mountains. 1854 Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) I. xi. 342 Hence [the blade of grass] becomes more and more refrigerated. |
| absol. 1626 Bacon Sylva §398 The great Brizes which the motion of the Air in great Circles..produceth, which do refrigerate. 1671 R. Bohun Wind 177 All Winds..doe actually refrigerate, and oftentimes so intensly, that they prove the fittest instruments for the Congelation of Liquids. |
c. To expose to extreme cold for the purpose of freezing or preserving.
| 1875 Knight Dict. Mech. 1165/2 The vessels to be refrigerated are sustained on a carriage. 1957 Times 1 Nov. 11/7 Operations which cannot be undertaken at normal temperature may be performed if the body is refrigerated. 1979 Arizona Daily Star 5 Aug. j 5/2 Refrigerate overnight before using. |
2. intr. To grow cold.
| 1559 P. Morwyng tr. Gesner's Treasure of Evonymus 151 A man must put les wyne to new routes then to dry: and perauentur, les also to them whiche ought to refrigerat and coule. 1563 T. Gale Antidot. ii. 17 Takynge it from the fyre when as it begynne to refrigerate and waxe colde. 1603 Sir C. Heydon Jud. Astrol. xii. 314 He receiveth the Sunnes beames but weakely, and therefore can not heat by them, but rather refrigerate. 1794 Sullivan View Nat. II. 142 The lavas..either overflow the land above the sea, and refrigerate there, or..they refrigerate again within the volcanos. 1864 Lowell Fireside Trav. 149, I will make a fire, and leave them to refrigerate as much longer as they please. |
Hence reˈfrigerated ppl. a., cooled, frozen; also applied, by extension, to the container in which food is kept, displayed, transported, etc., in a refrigerated condition.
| 1666 Boyle Orig. Formes & Qual. 173 We lately discours'd touching heated and refrigerated water. 1836 Macgillivray tr. Humboldt's Trav. xxiv. 347 The great heats are occasionally tempered by strata of refrigerated air. 1884 Pall Mall G. 26 July 5/2 The trade in refrigerated meat. 1943 J. S. Huxley TVA xv. 128 TVA, in collaboration with the University of Tennessee, designed and built refrigerated barges..to encourage the fruit and vegetable freezing industry in the Valley. 1958 Brit. Standard Specification No. 3053 (title) Open and closed refrigerated display cabinets (for the retail sale of frozen packaged foods in temperate climates). 1962 [see gondola 4 d]. 1967 Economist 7 Jan. 29/2 Bulgaria has bought a fleet of..long-distance refrigerated trucks (built on the standard American pattern)... There has been heavy investment in refrigerated rail cars bought from Hungary and Poland. 1967 Commercial Fisheries Rev. Dec. 53/1 The catch of the refrigerated tuna boats was 7,985 tons in 1966. 1976 Southern Even. Echo (Southampton) 3 Nov. (Advt.), Cunard have bought 10 fast refrigerated ships. |