(v. n.P. a.) : rĭgĕo, ēre, v. n.prob. kindr. with ῥιγέω, frigeo
* To be stiff or numb; to stiffen (syn.: concresco, conglacio).
* Lit. (class.).
* With cold: frigore,Lucr. 3, 891; Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 69 (opp. uri calore): gelu,Liv. 21, 32; Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 30; id. Pan. 82, 5: prata rigent,Hor. C. 4, 12, 3: stagnum,Col. 8, 17, 2: corpora omnibus,Liv. 21, 54; cf. poet.: horridus December,Mart. 7, 95.
* Poet., transf., to stand stiff or upright: (pars summa scopuli) riget,Ov. M. 4, 526; 6, 573: late riget Tmolus,id. ib. 11, 150: sine frondibus arbos,id. ib. 13, 691: illitterati num minus nervi rigent?Hor. Epod. 8, 17.
* Trop., to remain unmoved, inert (very rare): feritas immota riget,Mart. 5, 31, 5. —Hence, rĭgens, entis, P. a., stiff, inflexible, rigid, unbending (mostly post-class.).
* Lit.: secui madidas ungue rigente genas,Ov. H. 5, 72: lorica ex aere,Verg. A. 8, 621: aqua,i. e. frozen,Mart. 14, 117: pars mundi ipsis aquilonis conceptaculis rigentissima,Sol. 15: caput (with praedurum),rigid,Quint. 11, 3, 69; cf. id. 2, 13, 9: interque rigentes (partes terrae), Tib. 4, 1, 165: gelu flumina,Plin. Pan. 82, 5.
* Trop., stubborn, inflexible, unyielding: animus,Sen. Hippol. 413; cf.: vir tot malis,id. Thyest. 304.