(verb) : con-gĕlo, āvi, ātum, 1, and n.
* Act., to cause to freeze up, to congeal.
* Lit.: sal,Vitr. 8, 3: oleum,Col. 1, 6, 18; 12, 50, 12: pruinas,Plin. 18, 28, 68, § 277: radices,Col. 3, 12, 1: mare congelatum,the sea being frozen,Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 4: congelati gutta nasi,Mart. 11, 98, 7.
* Neutr., to freeze, freeze up. *
* Lit.: Ister congelat, Ov. Tr. 3, 10, 30.
* Transf., to grow hard: lingua,Ov. M. 6, 307; 15, 415. —*
* Trop.: gaudebam sane et congelasse nostrum amicum laetabar otio, had frozen together, i. e. had become wholly inactive, * Cic. Fam. 2, 13, 3; cf. conglacio, I. B.

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