ETYMOLOGY
from Latin tepefacere (to make tepid),
from tepere (to be lukewarm)
EXAMPLE (for vb. 1)
“…Sonorous, thro’ the patient’s bosom pours
Its antidotal notes, the flood of life,
Loos’d at its source by tepefying strains,
Flows like some frozen silver stream unthaw’d
At a warm zephyr of the genial spring…”
From: The Power of Harmony
By John Gilbert Cooper, 1745
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