v. Obs.–0 [f. L. frīgerāt- ppl. stem of frīgerāre to cool, f. frīgus: see FRIGID and -ATE.] trans. To make frigid; to cool. So † Frigreration Obs.–1 [see -ATION], the action or process of cooling; † Frigeratory Obs.–0 [see -ORY], see quot.
1656–81. Blount, Glossogr., Frigerate, to cool. Frigeratory, a Cooling-house, or place.
a. 1691. Boyle, Hist. Air, xl. (1692), 248. Which wonderful Change I should not so much ascribe to a Frigeration of the Air … as to some nitrous and other corrected Exhalations.
