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Word Meanings - INFRIGIDATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of chilling or causing to become cold; a chilling; coldness; congelation. Boyle.

Related words: (words related to INFRIGIDATION)

  • CAUSEFUL
    Having a cause.
  • CAUSATIVE
    1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
  • CHILLINESS
    1. A state or sensation of being chilly; a disagreeable sensation of coldness. 2. A moderate degree of coldness; disagreeable coldness or rawness; as, the chilliness of the air. 3. Formality; lack of warmth.
  • CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
    Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
  • CHILLY
    Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering.
  • CAUSATOR
    One who causes. Sir T. Browne.
  • CAUSTICILY
    1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark.
  • BECOME
    happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
  • BOYLE'S LAW
    See LAW
  • CAUSAL
    A causal word or form of speech. Anglo-Saxon drencan to drench, causal of Anglo-Saxon drincan to drink. Skeat.
  • CAUSATIVELY
    In a causative manner.
  • CAUSTICALLY
    In a caustic manner.
  • CAUSATIONIST
    One who believes in the law of universal causation.
  • CHILLING
    Making chilly or cold; depressing; discouraging; cold; distant; as, a chilling breeze; a chilling manner. -- Chill"ing"ly, adv.
  • CHILLI
    See CHILI
  • BECOMED
    Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.
  • CAUSIDICAL
    Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and defense of suits.
  • CAUSERIE
    Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat.
  • CAUSER
    One who or that which causes.
  • CAUSELESS
    1. Self-originating; uncreated. 2. Without just or sufficient reason; groundless. My fears are causeless and ungrounded. Denham.
  • ANTICAUSODIC
    See ANTICAUSOTIC
  • ORCHILLA WEED
    The lichen from which archil is obtained. See Archil.
  • ACHILLEAN
    Resembling Achilles, the hero of the Iliad; invincible.
  • UNBECOME
    To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.
  • ENCAUSTIC
    Prepared by means of heat; burned in. Encaustic painting (Fine Arts), painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined, and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors. -- Encaustic tile , an earthenware tile which
  • UNCAUSED
    Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter.
  • CHILL
    A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever. 3. A check
  • EREMACAUSIS
    A gradual oxidation from exposure to air and moisture, as in the decay of old trees or of dead animals.

 

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