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algid
[ al-jid ]
adjective
- cold; chilly.
algid
/ ˈæɪ /
adjective
- med chilly or cold
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Derived Forms
- ˈ徱ٲ, noun
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Other Word Forms
- ·i·ٲ g·Ա noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of algid1
1620–30; < Latin algidus “cold,” from ŧ “to be cold”
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Word History and Origins
Origin of algid1
C17: from Latin algidus, from ŧ to be cold
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The skin is perceptibly cold in the algid stage of cholera.
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Harry felt an algid chill creep over him.
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For, of all the miracles!—I could not doubt—an actual aroma like peach-blossom was in the algid air about me!
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Yet the efficacy of this powerful agency is by no means comparable to that which it produces in the algid forms of malarial fever.
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If the attack has been very severe, and particularly if the algid stage has been prolonged, fever of a low type is apt to occur, and indeed may terminate fatally.
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