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tepify (三人称単数 現在形 tepifies, 現在分詞 tepifying, 過去形および過去分詞形 tepified)

1. To make tepid (lukewarm); to moderately warm.
   • 1752, Have at you all: or, The Drury-lane journal, by madam Roxana Termagant, page 164:

     There are five hundred different forts of Cephalic Snuffs, to refresh, refrigerate, tepify, or dry up the moist humours of the brain : - There are the noble Opthalmic Tinctures, to clean,  […]

   • 1756, Diederick Wessel Linden, A Treatise on the Three Medicinal Mineral Waters at Llandrindod, page 265:

     To the Pyrites we may also attribute the Effects of the 5th Experiment, for their very Nature is to tepify Waters, whenever there is an inward Motion excited (which we have called the mineral Ferment) provided there are no Salts or other Admixtures present, to prevent the ensuing Heat […]

   • 1834, Jean Marc Bourgery, A Treatise on Lesser Surgery: Or, The Minor Surgical Operations, page 63:

     The most that should ever be done is to tepify the mixture slightly , if it is feared that the first shock of the cold on the skin might injure or annoy the patient .

   • 1866, J. B. Rose (translator), Virgil (original author), The Ecolgues and Georgics, page 129:

     Meantime as vital tumours tepify, And tender bones and body putrefy, Behold! reanimation will begin; […]