calid
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See also: càlid
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Italian caldo, from Latin calidus (“hot”).
Adjective[edit]
calid (comparative more calid, superlative most calid)
- (obsolete) Hot; burning; ardent.
- 1883, Roswell Rice, “Rice’s Descant on Time and Immortality”, in Roswell Rice’s Orations and Poems[1], 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,
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “calid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Nathan Bailey (1736) Dictionarium Britanicum: Or a More Compleat Universal Etymological English Dictionary Than Any Extant.