frigorific

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When Verezzi's senses are "chilled with the frigorific torpidity of despair," his eyes "roll horribly in their sockets."

From The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance by Birkhead, Edith

This refrigerator is like those which we employ in our sulphurous anhydride frigorific apparatus.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 by Various

It is the chilling influence of the ethereal stream which originated the idea among philosophers, of frigorific impressions, darted from a clear sky.

From Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence by Bassnett, Thomas

It suffices to cause the current of water which issues from the condenser of the frigorific machine to pass into the worm of the boiler.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 by Various

Upon substituting balls of snow for heated bodies, they even went so far as to prove that frigorific foci may be formed by way of reflection.

From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Grant, Robert