What's "the word I'm thinking of"? Today, it's...
frigorific [frig-uh-RIF-ik] (adjective)
Causing cold, chilling
"The reading public did not approve of it -- the thermometer of popular opinion was down at 32, under its 
frigorific influence, so that we were abundantly justified in stuffing no more of Mr. Twitch's sonnets down the regurgitating throats of the literary multitude."
--Anonymous, "Treason," in Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 10 (1821)
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        Published on January 07, 2014 19:48