Rígeo, riges, rígui, rigêre. Plin. To bee feruently colde, to bee hard or stiffe,Rigent frigore partes mundi incultæ. Ci. The vnhabitable parts of the world are frozen with cold.Rigere gelu.Liu.To be frosen.Rigentia gelu flumina. Pli. iun. Riuers frosen.Prata rigent. Hor. Medowes are frosen.Lingua riget.Ouid.Is stiffe. Comæ rigebant terrore.Ouid.His haire stoode an ende for feare.Capilli metu rigent. Idem. Ouid.Ceruix horrida riget.Ouid.Ianua riget duris fulta roboribus.Ouid. Rigere.Virg.To be hard or stiffe.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
rĭgĕo, ēre, v. n. [prob. kindr. with r(ige/w, frigeo], to be stiff or numb; to stiffen (syn.: concresco, conglacio). I.Lit. (class.). 1. With cold: frigore, Lucr. 3, 891; Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 69 (opp. uri calore): gelu, Liv. 21, 32; Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 30; id. Pan. 82, 5: prata rigent, Hor. C. 4, 12, 3: stagnum, Col. 8, 17, 2: corpora omnibus, Liv. 21, 54; cf. poet.: horridus December, Mart. 7, 95.— 2. Of any physical stiffness: gelido comae terrore rigebant,
stood on end
,
bristled up
, Ov. M. 3, 100; so, ora indurata, id. ib. 14, 503: ardua cervix (with horrent setae), id. ib. 8, 284: cerealia dona rigent, i. e.
are hardened into gold
, id. ib. 11, 122: vestes auroque ostroque,
are stiff
,
stand out
, Verg. A. 11, 72; cf.: terga boum plumbo insuto ferroque, id. ib. 5, 405: manicae ex auro, Sil. 4, 155: signa, Lucr. 5, 1427.—II.Poet., transf., to stand stiff or upright: (pars summa scopuli) riget, Ov. M. 4, 526; 6, 573: late riget Tmolus, id. ib. 11, 150: sine frondibus arbos, id. ib. 13, 691: illitterati num minus nervi rigent?Hor. Epod. 8, 17.— III.Trop., to remain unmoved, inert (very rare): feritas immota riget, Mart. 5, 31, 5. —Hence, rĭgens, entis, P. a., stiff, inflexible, rigid, unbending (mostly post-class.). 1.Lit.: secui madidas ungue rigente genas, Ov. H. 5, 72: lorica ex aere, Verg. A. 8, 621: aqua, i. e.
frozen
, Mart. 14, 117: pars mundi ipsis aquilonis conceptaculis rigentissima, Sol. 15: caput (with praedurum),
rigid
, Quint. 11, 3, 69; cf. id. 2, 13, 9: interque rigentes (partes terrae), Tib. 4, 1, 165: gelu flumina, Plin. Pan. 82, 5.— 2.Trop., stubborn, inflexible, unyielding: animus, Sen. Hippol. 413; cf.: vir tot malis, id. Thyest. 304.