algidadj.
/ˈaldʒɪd/, U.S. /ˈældʒɪd/ 1. Cold, chilly; freezing, frozen; frigid.
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1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Algide, chill with cold.
1657 N. Billingsley Brachy-martyrologia 66 Wander there did innumerable flocks Upon the craggy cliffs, and algid rocks.
1749 R. Rolt Cambria iii. 60 When keen the nipping East, in algid morn Breathes soul-acuteness thro' the nitrous air.
1781 Town & Country Mag. May 269/1 Drive away the algid rain, Let the meadows smile again.
1864 R. F. Burton Mission to Gelele II. 249 The algid breath of the desert wind.
1897 National Mag. Feb. 486/1 For the first few nights the approach of the whistler had sent an algid sensation through their persons.
1941 Poetry July 178 The algid folds of mind, caught in a pose, Hardened and set like concrete?
1976 L. Eiserer Amer. Robin vi. 86 To brood the infants with her warmth through the algid darkness.
2010 Weekend Post (Cairns, Queensland) (Nexis) 18 Dec. (Weekender section) 6 The landscape is moulded by the algid architecture of wind and ice.
2. Medicine. Originally: †(of a fever) characterized by paroxysms in which the stage of rigor (rigor n. 1; cf. algor n.) is severe or prolonged; designating such a stage; (obsolete). In later use: (esp. of forms of malaria and cholera) characterized by a (frequently terminal) stage in which the patient becomes cold and clammy as a result of hypovolaemic or septicaemic shock; designating this state; (also) having an abnormally low body temperature, esp. as a result of shock.
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1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 202 The [frog's] heart applied to the back bone helps algid agues.
1691 A. Brown Vindicatory Schedule 94 And in some algid Fevers it is always absent.
1751 tr. G. Bianchi Diss. Blisters 5 The Use of Sinapisms and Dropacisms in chronical Disorders, seems to have authorised it in acute Cases, especially in lethargic Fevers, and..in those distinguished by the Names of algid, lipyria, and frigorific.
1832 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 11 178 The extreme coldness of the body in the algid stage of cholera, seems to have led some physicians to think that the most important indication in the treatment was to warm the patient.
1847 E. A. Parkes Res. Pathol. & Treatm. Asiatic or Algide Cholera i. 4 I have ventured to employ the term ‘Algide Cholera’ as a synonym for the ‘Cholera gravior’ of Orton and others.
1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 142 The hot fit is unusually long and rigorous, compared with the algid stage.
1889 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. VIII. 610 Algid dysentery.
1893 Med. Bull. 15 297/1 During the algid period [of cholera] the eyeballs are sunk in the orbit (enophthalmus).
1916 W. H. Deaderick & L. Thompson Endemic Dis. Southern States 117 When, in addition to the symptoms of algidity already detailed, there exist symptoms simulating true cholera, there is the variety of algid malaria usually spoken of as choleraic pernicious.
1959 Nature 28 Nov. 1727/1 During the second hour, the animals were drowsy, flaccid and algid.
1971 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Apr. 92/1 Four groups of complications are generally recognized..: (4) algid malaria, with low blood pressure and cardiovascular failure.
2007 Trans. Royal Soc. Trop. Med. & Hygiene 101 1046/1 This case also involved septic shock, known as algid malaria, because the blood pressure was low and the extremities were cold and clammy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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