congelare

congelare [CL] 1 to freeze (also intr.), congeal, solidify; b (alch.). c to clot (blood etc.). d to petrify. ~averat, tosomne geræt WW; si desuper aqua pre frigoris uredine ‥ ~ata fuisset, ‥ excisa glacie ipsius fragmenta projecit seque in aquis ~antibus ‥ immersit Gir. GE II 10. b si sulphur album non urens fuerit, ~at Mercurium in argentum bonum Correct. Alch. 6; Dastin Ros. 7 (v. congelatio a); 1352 ~antibus vitrum (v. cubare 3b); 1418 quandam materiam nigram confecit cum rebus et pulveribus predictis existentem arsam et congellatam in quodam vitro rotundo CoramR 629 rex r. 18d.. c Gilb. I 43. 2 (v. congelabilis); medicina ‥ facit vomere sanguinem ~atum infra corpus ex vulnere Bacon IX 43. d non tantum ligna sed et lina ‥ imposita durum in lapidem ~antur Gir. TH II 7. 2 to chill, benumb; b (fig.). dum David ipse scelus commisit [cf. II Reg. xxiv 15], in aere pestis / congelat et gentem sternit ubique suam Gower VC II 282. b ~ati magnitudo timoris loquendi excludit audaciam P. Blois Serm. 768B.

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