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

Example Sentences

It was only four days before curtain time, but the Metropolitan Opera's brave new production of Mozart's Cos� Fan Tutte was trembling and acold.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)

Is the fire of his old loving-kindness gone out, that his pyres are acold?

From Songs Before Sunrise by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Then the great grove that Romulus hallowed the fleer's home He showeth, and Lupercal set beneath the cliff acold, Called of Lycæan Pan in wise Parrhasia used of old.

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William

Here you shall light a fire, which those who watch will believe to be but the fire of a herdsman who is acold.

From The Wizard by Haggard, Henry Rider