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refrigere

refrigēre [ML < CL re-+frigēre] , to cool down, to grow cold again (in quot. in transf. context). b (transf., of emotion or abstr.) to lose force or vigour, cool down. refriguit mox calor pestilens, a spiritu fornicationis et immunditie circa vitalia succensus Ketel J. Bev. 284.  b martyr ‥ caritatem novissimi temporis, †qui [l. que] ~uerat, excitabat W. Cant. Mir. Thom. VI 91; sicque fide populi crescente, refriguit estus / gentis barbarice Nig. Mir. BVM 2117; sicut ille fervens erat fide fervente, sic iste ‥ fervens ‥ fuit jam ~ente Gir. EH I 20; fidei fervor, qui jam refrixerat [v. l. refriguerat] Id. IK II 14; s1234 fidelium circa negotium crucis tepuit, immo potius caritas ~uit generalis M. Par. Maj. III 288; 1309 quod in ‥ purificacionibus ‥ in dicta ecclesia unicum denar[i]um offeratur ‥, ~ente et procul posita caritate dampnabiliter statuerunt Reg. Cant. 1105.

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