Congelo, cóngelas, pen. cor. congelâre. Colum. To congeale or waxe thicke.In lapidem congelare.Ouid.To harden into the nature of a stone. Lachrymas congelare. Ouid.Fluuius congelat latices suos.Ouid.The tiuer freeseth.Congelat vxor anus virum. Martial. An olde wife morliflesh a man.Congelauít otio.Cic.He is as it were frosen with idlenes.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
con-gĕlo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n.I.Act., to cause to freeze up, to congeal. A.Lit.: sal, Vitr. 8, 3: oleum, Col. 1, 6, 18; 12, 50, 12: pruinas, Plin. 18, 28, 68, 277: radices, Col. 3, 12, 1: mare congelatum,
the sea being frozen
, Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 4: congelati gutta nasi, Mart. 11, 98, 7.—B.Transf., to thicken, make hard: lac,
to curdle
, Col. 7, 8, 6: in lapidem rictus serpentis, Ov. M. 11, 60: ubi se adeps congelaverit, Scrib. Comp. 271.—Humorously: quid prodest, si te congelat uxor anus?Mart. 14, 147, 2.—II.Neutr., to freeze, freeze up. A.Lit.: Ister congelat, Ov. Tr. 3, 10, 30.—2.Transf., to grow hard: lingua, Ov. M. 6, 307; 15, 415. — B.Trop.: gaudebam sane et congelasse nostrum amicum laetabar otio, had frozen together, i. e. had become wholly inactive, Cic. Fam. 2, 13, 3; cf. conglacio, I. B.
