calid

See also: càlid

English

Etymology

From Italian caldo, from Latin calidus (hot).

Adjective

calid (comparative more calid, superlative most calid)

  1. (obsolete) Hot; burning; ardent.
    • 1883, Roswell Rice, “Rice’s Descant on Time and Immortality”, in Roswell Rice’s Orations and Poems, page 241:
      Pit of damnation deep expands its jaws
      Of liquid fire! throwing its curly waves
      Of calid flames, and smoke of sulph’rous fumes,

References

  • calid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • Nathan Bailey (1736) Dictionarium Britanicum: Or a More Compleat Universal Etymological English Dictionary Than Any Extant.

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