sb. and a. [f. L. frīgor-, frīgus cold + -IC. Cf. F. frigorique sb. (Littré Suppl.).]
† A. sb. An imagined ‘imponderable’ substance supposed to be the cause of cold. Cf. CALORIC.
1812. Monthly Mag., XXXIV. 297/1. If we allow that water has decreased in temperature, and dilated by the presence of frigoric, why should frigoric, which must be equally present when mercury or alcohol lose coloric, cause no dilatation in them, but produce a contrary effect, viz. construction.
B. adj. ‘Pertaining to or consisting in the application of cold’ (Cent. Dict.). rare.
1887. Scientific American, N. S., LVI. 19 March, 178/3. The conditions under which the frigoric service was to be introduced into the morgue.
