Obs. [n. of action f. as prec.: see -ATION. So in mod.F.]
1. The action or process of turning into, or becoming, ice; freezing, congelation.
1640. G. Watts, trans. Bacon’s Adv. Learn., 153. Predictions may be made of … Deluges, Draughts, Heates, Conglaciations.
1651. Biggs, New Disp., 118. Congelation or conglatiation.
1699. Phil. Trans., XXI. 341. As to their Rarifaction and Conglaciation.
2. concr. Any frozen or crystallized formation.
1750. G. Hughes, Barbadoes, II. 55. [The caves’] petrified Icicles (if I may so call them) and other Conglaciations.
