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algid

[ al-jid ]

adjective

  1. cold; chilly.


algid

/ ˈæɪ /

adjective

  1. med chilly or cold
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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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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