acold

American  

[uh-kohld] / əˈkoʊld /

adjective

Archaic.

1. being cold or chilled.

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Etymology

Origin of acold

before 900; Middle English acolde, Old English ācolod, past participle of ācōlian to grow cold. See a- ³, cool, -ed ²

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Example Sentences

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acold

Now that love is old, Shall we leave the floor unswept And the hearth acold?

From Later Poems by Bliss Carman

Then sprang ye forth and went your way, and I abode there alone, sitting an whole day, sore and hungry and acold.

From Song and Legend from the Middle Ages by Porter Lander MacClintock

Here we came when love was young, Now that love is old, Never let its day be lone, Nor its heart acold!

From Later Poems by Bliss Carman

And otherwhile it fareth so, In loves cause who is slow, That he withoute under the wow Be nyhte stant fulofte acold, Which mihte, if that he hadde wold His time kept, have be withinne.

From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by G. C. (George Campbell) Macaulay

She might rightly say with Shakspeare, "Poor Tom's acold."

From Without Dogma by Henryk Sienkiewicz

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