conglaciate

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Latin conglaciatus, past participle of conglaciare.

Verb[edit]

conglaciate (third-person singular simple present conglaciates, present participle conglaciating, simple past and past participle conglaciated)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To turn to ice; to freeze.
    • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: [], 2nd edition, London: [] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, [], →OCLC:
      Neither doth there any thing properly conglaciate but water, or watery humiditys

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for conglaciate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin[edit]

Verb[edit]

conglaciāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of conglaciō