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

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acold

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

From Songs Before Sunrise by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

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

Husband in faith, and that acold; Ah well away, Joseph, as thou art old!

From "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays by Rhys, Ernest

Now is my last hour come; and here is Hallblithe of the Raven perishing, with his deeds undone and his longing unfulfilled, and his bridal-bed acold for ever. 

From The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men by Morris, William

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 Carman, Bliss