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refrigidare

refrigidare [ML < CL re-+LL frigidare] , to make cold, to cool, chill (in quot. in med. context). b (pr. ppl. as adj.) that has a cooling effect or quality, cooling. s1135 hec ‥ comestio ‥ senile corpus letaliter ~ans ‥ fecit perturbationem; contra quod natura renitens excitavit febrem acutam H. Hunt. HA VII 43 (= Torigni Chr. 125, W. Coventr. I 154) (cf. Capgr. Hen. 66: infrigidans).  b humectat corpus hominis lac acre refrigdans D. Bec. 2759.

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