frigorifick

English

Adjective

frigorifick (comparative more frigorifick, superlative most frigorifick)

  1. Obsolete spelling of frigorific
    • 1663, Robert Boyle, “Title V. Experiments Touching the Tendency of Cold Upwards or Downwards.”, in New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, or, An Experimental History of Cold, Begun. […], London: […] Richard Davis, […], published 1683, →OCLC, paragraph 4, page 69:
      [W]hen vve have, as vve very frequently have, put mixtures of ſnovv and ſalt into vials, and left them in the open Air, vve generally obſerv'd, that the outſide of the Glaſs vvas cas'd vvith ice, or covered vvith hoar froſt, directly over againſt that part of the inſide of the Glaſs, vvherein the frigorifick mixture vvas.
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