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▪ I. acold, a. arch.|əˈkəʊld|
Forms: 3 acoled (?), 4 acoold, acoild, 5–6 acolde, 6–7, 9 acold.
[prob. orig. a-cólod, a-cóled, pa. pple. of acólian, acólen (see acool), which became regularly acooled in 16th c., but when used adjectively preserved the original o before two consonants, or by assimilation to adj. cold.]
Cooled, chilled, cold.
c1314Guy Warw. 20 Al to michel thou art afoild [= afooled], Now thi blod it is acoild. 1393Gower Conf. Am. III. 35 Thus lay this pouer in great distresse, Acolde and hongry at the gate. c1400Rom. Rose 2658 And waite without in woo and peyne, Full yvel a-coolde in wynde and reyne. 1461Past. Lett. 421 II. 63 It begynyth to wax a cold abydyng her. 1474Caxton Chesse 52 He behelde where satte an olde knyght that was sore acolde. 1563Homilies ii. ii. iii. (1859) 233 Who have need either of meat when we be hungry, or drink when we be thirsty, or clothing when we be acold. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie (1869) 236 Alwaies burning and euer chill a colde. 1605Shakes. Lear iii. iv. 59 Tom's a-cold. 1608Tourneur Reveng. Trag. ii. i. 51 All thriues but chastity; she lyes a cold. 1821Keats St. Agnes' Eve i. 170 The owl for all his feathers was a-cold. a1843Southey Compl. of Poor Wks. II. 195 And we were wrapt and coated well, And yet we were a-cold. 1863A. B. Grosart Small Sins (ed. 2) 90 Their a-cold breath blights the fragile blossoms. 1870Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 341 Before the sun of that day grew acold.
▪ II. † aˈcold, v. Obs.
[OE. acald-ian, W. Sax. acealdian cogn. w. OHG. irchalten, mod.G. erkalten; f. a- prefix 1 + OE. cald-ian, cealdian to become cold.]
1. intr. To become cold.
c880K. ælfred Greg. Past. lviii. 447 Swa eac ðæt wearme wlacað, ær hit eallunga acealdiᵹe. 1388Wimbleton's Sermon in Halliw., The syknesse of the world thou schalt knowe by charyté acoldyng. c1440Gesta Rom. 96 When this knyght þat was accolded,—& hit was grete froste.
2. trans. To make cold, cool.
c1230Ancren Riwle 404, O sond ne groweð no god, and bitocneð idel ? and idel acoaldeð & acwencheð þis fur. |