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refrigescere [CL] 1 to cool down, grow cold again. ecce refrigescit craticula, flamma tepescit Nig. Laur. 2111; ecce refrigescunt artus nec ab igne calescunt Ib. 2117; cum videres obscuratum / jubar, quo clarescere / sol mendicat, et humatum / jam jam refrigescere J. Howd. Sal. 38. 11. 2 a (of emotion or activity) to lose warmth or vigour, cool down. b (of person) to lose zeal or fervency (also w. specifying abl.). a ut pristini fraternitatis affectus ‥ recalescant, ne ‥ longa locorum intercapidine ~ant Aldh. Met. 4; refrixit [gl.: defecit, acolode] ‥ / cultus deorum GlP 668; fidei fervor, qui jam refrixerat [v. l. refriguerat] Gir. IK II 14; pravi consilio prevalente, et hesterna devotione ~ente Id. PI II 13; superabundabit iniquitas, ~et charitas Holcot Wisd. 94; illi ‥ commixti fidelibus instar aque fervide, in aura gelida ~ere faciunt caritatem multorum Wycl. Apost. 67; 1426 ne hec virtutum radix in hoc loco, quod absit, sic de cetero ~at erga fratres ‥ mandamus ‥ ut ‥ (Ordinatio) Amund. I 215.  b cum ‥ accepto conversationis fervore paulatim tepesceret, et torrido coenubialis vitae rigore ‥ sensim ~eret Aldh. VirgP 31 p. 270; quedam [mulieres] solummodo signis et diacinnis commovent [? l. commoventur], commote facile ~unt, he non nisi citum ac velocem querunt coitum Quaest. Salern. B 12.

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