Refrígero, refrigeras, pe. co. refrigerâre. Ci. To coole: to make cold: to deminish or asswage: also to refresh with coldnesse.Refrigerare æstum. Pli. Refrigerare pilcinas. Var. Refrigerare thermas. Mar. Refrigerato & extincto calore. Ci. The heate being cooled and quenched.Me frigus refrigerauit. Vatinius ad Ciceronem. The colde hath frozen me or made me benummed.Membra refrigerat vnda.Ouid. Refrigerato iam leuissimo sermone hominÛ C.The vain talke or cõmunication of mÊ being quailed or diminished.Defessa ac refrigerata accusatio. Ci. Wearied or quailed.Refrigerare restem. Qui. To astonie a witnesse: so to quaile his heate, that he can not tel what to say.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
rē-frīgĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to make cool or cold; to cool off, cool (class.). I.Lit.: ignis in aquam conjectus continuo restinguitur et refrigeratur, Cic. Rosc. Com. 6, 17; cf.: refrigerato et exstincto calore, id. N. D. 2, 9, 23: calorem, Quint. 9, 4, 113: quod me frigus Dalmaticum, quod illinc ejecit, etiam hic refrigeravit, Cic. Fam. 5, 10, a, 1: membra partim ardentia partim refrigerata, id. N. D. 1, 10, 24: aquam, Plin. 31, 3, 23, 38: frumentum, Cato, R. R. 92; cf. panem, Plin. 22, 21, 28, 56: unguentum, id. 13, 1, 2, 13: plumbum, id. 34, 18, 50, 170: stomachum, id. 25, 13, 95, 153: granaria (ventus), Varr. R. R. 1, 57 fin.: quoad refrigeratur aër, id. ib. 2, 2, 11: Neronianas thermas, Mart. 3, 25, 4; Plin. 20, 3, 8, 17.— Absol., Cic. N. D. 2, 46, 119: novum (vinum) refrigerare, vetus calefacere, Varr. ap. Gell. 13, 30, 14; cf.: refrigerant olera, coriandrum, cucumis, etc., Cels. 2, 27: aceto summa vis est in refrigerando, Plin. 23, 1, 27, 54.—B.To relieve, refresh: membra refrigerat unda. Ov. M. 13, 903: podagras, Plin. 20, 3, 8, 17; cf.: ubi enim potest illa aetas aut calescere vel apricatione melius vel igni aut vicissim umbris aquisve refrigerari salubrius?Cic. Sen. 16, 57: refrigerandi sui causā, Suet. Vit. Luc. — II.Trop., to cool off, to deprive of warmth or zeal; hence, pass., to be cooled, wearied, exhausted; to grow cool or languid (cf. defervesco): defessā ac refrigeratā accusatione, Cic. Verr. 1, 10, 31: refrigerato jam levissimo sermone hominum provincialium, id. Fam. 3, 8, 1: refrigerato inventionis amore, Quint. Ep. ad Tryph. 2: cum Antonii librarius ... refrigeratus, ab Antonio transfugit ad Caesarem,
his zeal having cooled
, Vell. 2, 83, 2: prudens (testis) aliquo urbane dicto refrigerandus est, qs. to throw cold water upon, i. e. to intimidate, check, Quint. 5, 7, 26; cf.: aegre perlegit, refrigeratus saepe a semetipso, i. e.
