Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Cooling; mitigating heat.
- noun Anything which refrigerates; a refrigerant; a refrigerator; any vessel, chamber, or pipe in which cooling is effected.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun In distillation, a vessel filled with cold water, surrounding the worm, the vapor in which is thereby condensed.
- noun The chamber, or tank, in which ice is formed, in an ice machine.
- adjective Mitigating heat; cooling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated That which
refrigerates orcools .
Etymologies
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Compare French réfrigératoire.
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Examples
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I have in my own experience proved the sitz to be cogitatory, consolatory, quiescent, refrigeratory, revivificatory, or all these together.
The Recreations of a Country Parson Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd 1862
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In the mean time, the leaves of oaks abundantly congested on snow, preserve it as well for wine, as a deep pit, or the most artificial refrigeratory.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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