I.to make cool or cold; to cool off, cool (class.).
I. Lit.: “ignis in aquam conjectus continuo restinguitur et refrigeratur,” Cic. Rosc. Com. 6, 17; cf.: “refrigerato et exstincto calore,” id. N. D. 2, 9, 23: “calorem,” Quint. 9, 4, 113: “quod me frigus Dalmaticum, quod illinc ejecit, etiam hic refrigeravit,” Cic. Fam. 5, 10, a, 1: “membra partim ardentia partim refrigerata,” id. N. D. 1, 10, 24: “aquam,” Plin. 31, 3, 23, § 38: “frumentum,” Cato, R. R. 92; cf. “panem,” Plin. 22, 21, 28, § 56: “unguentum,” id. 13, 1, 2, § 13: “plumbum,” id. 34, 18, 50, § 170: “stomachum,” id. 25, 13, 95, § 153: “granaria (ventus),” Varr. R. R. 1, 57 fin.: “quoad refrigeratur aër,” id. ib. 2, 2, 11: “Neronianas thermas,” Mart. 3, 25, 4; Plin. 20, 3, 8, § 17.— Absol., Cic. N. D. 2, 46, 119: novum (vinum) refrigerare, vetus calefacere, Varr. ap. Gell. 13, 30, 14; cf.: “refrigerant olera, coriandrum, cucumis, etc.,” Cels. 2, 27: “aceto summa vis est in refrigerando,” Plin. 23, 1, 27, § 54.—
B. To relieve, refresh: membra refrigerat unda. Ov. M. 13, 903: “podagras,” Plin. 20, 3, 8, § 17; cf.: “ubi enim potest illa aetas aut calescere vel apricatione melius vel igni aut vicissim umbris aquisve refrigerari salubrius?” Cic. Sen. 16, 57: refrigerandi sui causā, Suet. Vit. Luc. —
II. Trop., to cool off, to deprive of warmth or zeal; hence, pass., to be cooled, wearied, exhausted; to grow cool or languid (cf. defervesco): “defessā ac refrigeratā accusatione,” Cic. Verr. 1, 10, 31: “refrigerato jam levissimo sermone hominum provincialium,” id. Fam. 3, 8, 1: “refrigerato inventionis amore,” Quint. Ep. ad Tryph. 2: “cum Antonii librarius . . . refrigeratus, ab Antonio transfugit ad Caesarem,” his zeal having cooled, Vell. 2, 83, 2: prudens (testis) aliquo urbane dicto refrigerandus est, qs. to throw cold water upon, i. e. to intimidate, check, Quint. 5, 7, 26; cf.: “aegre perlegit, refrigeratus saepe a semetipso,” i. e. being often stopped, interrupted, Suet. Claud. 41. —Esp. in late Lat.: “alicui,” to refresh, comfort, assist, Tert. Anim. 51 fin.; id. ad Scap. 4 med.: “me refrigeravit,” Vulg. 2 Tim. 1, 16; id. Exod. 23, 12.
