He gave up his position as a civil servant, and served as the secretary of the Slovenian Society (Slovene: Slovensko društvo) and editor of the newspaper Slovenija in Ljubljana from 1 July 1848 to mid-September 1849.

He returned to Vienna in 1850, where he worked until his death in the editorship of the state legal code, achieving the rank of government adviser.

[3] In 1853, Cigale edited the Slovenian part of the legal terminology work Juridisch-politische Terminologie für die slavischen Sprachen Österreichs and prepared Anton Mažgon and Jožef Krajnc's translation of the general civil code for publication.

He published articles on Slovene orthography, declension, and morphology in various newspapers (e.g., Slovenski glasnik, Novice).

As a supplement to the dictionary he also prepared a work titled Znanstveno terminologijo s posebnim ozirom na srednja učilišča (Scientific Terminology with a Special Emphasis on Secondary Schools).