单词 | acool |
释义 | † acoolv. Obsolete. 1. intransitive. To become cold, to cool; figurative to decline in ardour or passion. Occasionally in perfect tense formed with to be. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > be cold [verb (intransitive)] > become cold acoldeOE acooleOE coldOE keldea1300 akelec1380 refreidc1384 chillc1400 keel1450 refrigerate1559 frigefy1599 unwarm1826 eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) lviii. 447 Ælc wæter bið ðy unwerodre to drincanne, æfterðæmðe hit wearm bið, gif hit eft acolað. OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1900) II. 424 Þa het Migdeus se kyning þone Godes man gedon on weallende wæter; þa wearð hit acolod, and nan brand nolde byrnan under þam wætere. OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxiv. 12 Forþam þe unrihtwisnys rixað manegra lufu acolaþ. a1225 (?OE) MS Vesp. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 237 (MED) Þes lare and lage swiðe acolede. c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 205 (MED) Ich wot he is nu suþe acoled. c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 1275 Nis nout so hot þat hit nacoleþ. 2. transitive. To make cool (literal and figurative). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > make cold [verb (transitive)] > cool keelc825 akeleeOE acool?a1200 acolda1250 coola1400 quencha1400 refroid1477 wear1674 ?a1200 (?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 21 Nim þanne þat wæter, and habbe on hys muþe, swa wearm swa he forbere mæge, fort hyt acoled beon. a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 81 (MED) Ðane derewurðe salm anon he makede, and goddes wrað he ðar mide acolede. 1534 R. Whittington tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Tullyes Offyces ii. sig. K.7 The greuaunce of heates be acooled and abated. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. John f. 103v The Lorde Jesus dyd thus abate and acoole that arrogancie. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < v.eOE |
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