Definition of "refrigerant" That which makes cool or cold , such as a medicine for allaying the symptoms of fever . quotations examples
Quotations […] taking a blue and white soda -powder , [she ] mingled the same in water , and encouraged me to drink the result . It might be a specific for seasickness , but it was not for home -sickness . The fiz was a mockery , and the saline refrigerant struck a colder chill to my despondent heart .
1869, Oliver Wendell Holmes, “Cinders from the Ashes”, in Pages from an Old Volume of Life, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, published 1883, page 245
adjective comparative more refrigerant , superlative most refrigerant
(obsolete) That cools or freezes ; providing relief from heat or fever . quotations
Quotations This Experiment may be transferred vnto the Cure of Gangrenes , either Comming of themselues , or induced by too much Applying of Opiates : Wherein you must beware of Dry Heat , and resort to Things that are Refrigerant with an Inward Warmth , and Vertue of Cherishing .
1627, Francis Bacon, Sylua Syluarum: or A Naturall Historie in Ten Centuries, London: William Lee, VIII. Century, p. 204
Here on a bank , refrigerant seat ,Screen ’d from the Sun ’s o ’ercoming heat ,Some stretch ’d at ease the hours employ ,In Bacchus ’s unbounded joy ,
1788, John Hawkesworth, “Laudes Dargelli, or, Verses on the Dargle”, in The Poetical Works of John Hawkesworth, Dublin, page 25
They employ the coco -nut extensively ; […] This immoderate use of the fruit is , according to the people , far from wholesome : it is considered , by its refrigerant properties , to cause rheumatic pains […]
1859, Richard Francis Burton, The Lake Regions of Central Equatorial Africa, Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Volume 29, Chapter 2, pp. 54-55
[He ] is robust and can safely take refrigerant food .
1883, Adele Marion Fielde, “兩／两 (líang)”, in A Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of the Swatow Dialect, Arranged According to Syllables and Tones, Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, page 350