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- adjective Obsolete form of
frigorific .
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Examples
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Their remarks are too just to be disputed, and too salutary to be rejected; but there is likewise some danger lest timorous prudence should be inculcated, till courage and enterprise are wholly repressed, and the mind congealed in perpetual inactivity by the fatal influence of frigorifick wisdom.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746
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It may indeed happen that knowledge and virtue remain too long congealed by this frigorifick power, as the principles of vegetation are sometimes obstructed by lingering frosts.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746
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My purpose was, after ten months more spent in commerce, to have withdrawn my wealth to a safer country; to have given seven years to delight and festivity, and the remaining part of my days to solitude and repentance; but the hand of death is upon me; a frigorifick torpor encroaches upon my veins; I am now leaving the produce of my toil, which it must be thy business to enjoy with wisdom. "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746
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