grow stiff or numb; stiffen harden
Latin word, found 19 times in the texts on Socratos.
Vergil, Georgics 2.485: rura mihi et rigui placeant in vallibus amnes,
Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.555: pectora, temptatos sensit riguisse lacertos;
Seneca the Younger, Thyestes 906: corpus rigescat. fructus hic operis mei est.
All forms of rigesco