Coolen
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Alternative form of coolung. alt-of, alternative
- 1 To make or become cool. ambitransitive, nonstandard, rare
"Other points of light of much smaller magnitude we find to possess no illuminative vibration of their own, but to be merely reflecting from their surface the light they receive from the larger orbs, and we note that these lesser lights are subsidiaries or dependents of the suns or parent bodies, and are in fact planets in all degrees of advancement from boiling lava mud to the coolened solidity of spheres which generate life."
Example
More examples"Other points of light of much smaller magnitude we find to possess no illuminative vibration of their own, but to be merely reflecting from their surface the light they receive from the larger orbs, and we note that these lesser lights are subsidiaries or dependents of the suns or parent bodies, and are in fact planets in all degrees of advancement from boiling lava mud to the coolened solidity of spheres which generate life."
Etymology
From cool + -en. Compare Icelandic kólna (“to cool”), Norwegian kjølne (“to cool”), Swedish kylna (“to chill, cool”).
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