▪ 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.
| c 1314 Guy Warw. 20 Al to michel thou art afoild [= afooled], Now thi blod it is acoild. 1393 Gower Conf. Am. III. 35 Thus lay this pouer in great distresse, Acolde and hongry at the gate. c 1400 Rom. Rose 2658 And waite without in woo and peyne, Full yvel a-coolde in wynde and reyne. 1461 Past. Lett. 421 II. 63 It begynyth to wax a cold abydyng her. 1474 Caxton Chesse 52 He behelde where satte an olde knyght that was sore acolde. 1563 Homilies 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. 1589 Puttenham Eng. Poesie (1869) 236 Alwaies burning and euer chill a colde. 1605 Shakes. Lear iii. iv. 59 Tom's a-cold. 1608 Tourneur Reveng. Trag. ii. i. 51 All thriues but chastity; she lyes a cold. 1821 Keats St. Agnes' Eve i. 170 The owl for all his feathers was a-cold. a 1843 Southey Compl. of Poor Wks. II. 195 And we were wrapt and coated well, And yet we were a-cold. 1863 A. B. Grosart Small Sins (ed. 2) 90 Their a-cold breath blights the fragile blossoms. 1870 Morris 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.
| c 880 K. ælfred Greg. Past. lviii. 447 Swa eac ðæt wearme wlacað, ær hit eallunga acealdiᵹe. 1388 Wimbleton's Sermon in Halliw., The syknesse of the world thou schalt knowe by charyté acoldyng. c 1440 Gesta Rom. 96 When this knyght þat was accolded,—& hit was grete froste. |
2. trans. To make cold, cool.
| c 1230 Ancren Riwle 404, O sond ne groweð no god, and bitocneð idel {revsc} and idel acoaldeð & acwencheð þis fur. |