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

So I dare not brew thee a spell 'gainst her My caldron would grow acold And never again would bubble up, If touched by her thread of gold.

From The Little Colonel's Hero by Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)

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

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

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

From Without Dogma by Sienkiewicz, Henryk