Rígidus, pe. co. Aliud Adiectiuum. Vir. Cold: stiffe: hard: sharpe or cruel: rigorous.Nec poterit rigidas scindere remus aquas.Ouid.The Dare that can not breake the yse, or water frozen.Manus rigida.Ouid.Pruinæ rigidæ. Lucr. Frostes with yse. Quercus rigidæ.Virg.Stiffe okes.Aesculus rigida. Hor. Rigida caligo. Ci. A colde miste.Capillis rigidis hirta canities.Ouid.A curled hoart heade with hard haire.Cornu rigidum.Ouid.An harde horne.Aues rigidis cruribus. Ci. Ensis rigidus. Vir. Ferro rigido fodit pectora.Ouid.Mons rigidus. Oui. A cold frosen hil: a stiffe and harde hil.Pectus rigidum. Oui. Silex rigidus. Ouid.Rostrum rigidum.Ouid.Vngues rigidi.Ouid.Hard nayles. Rigidus leo. Mart. A cruel and fierce lion.Fores rigidæ.Ouid.Rigidæ innocentiæ homo. Liuius. A man of such firme and constant honestie % he wil not be led from it in any thing.Ius est rigidum & iueuitabile mortis.Ouid.Rigida mente negauit opem. Vir. With an hard hart he denied to helpe hinr. Minæ rigidæ. Ouid.Mores rigidi.Ouid.Rude and rigorous conditions.Mors rigida, Lucret.Cruel death.Pudor rigidus. Claud. Sententia rigida & dura.Plin. iun.Canachi signa rigidiora, qum vt imitentur veritatem. Ci. Canachus his images are more rudely made thā that &c.Vultus rigidus & trux. Ou. A cruel and sierce countenance.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
rĭgĭdo, āre, v. a. [id.], to harden, make firm (very rare); trop.: (virtus) rigidari quidem, amplius intendi non potest, Sen. Ep. 71, 20.