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egelid

egelid adjective: lukewarm, tepid.

Adjective

egelid (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Lukewarm, tepid.
    • At firſt, while there is a tolerable Degree of Strength, her Drink ought to he only lukewarm, egelid, but when ſhe becomes weaker, it muſt be made warmer ; for nothing offends a weak Stomach ſo much as cold […]1755, Giles Watts, Reflections on Slow and Painful Labours, And other Subjects in Midwifery, page 73
    • When it ceaſes to increaſe, as much as the circumſtances will allow, he muſt abſtain from every thing, except egelid water.1756, James Grieve (translator), Of Medicine: In Eight Books, pages 204-205 (originally published in Latin as "De Medicina" by Aulus Cornelius Celsus, a. 47 CE)

Origin of egelid

Borrowed from Latin egelidus.

Questions about egelid

What does egelid mean?
Egelid means lukewarm, tepid.
What part of speech is egelid?
Egelid is an adjective.

Words near egelid in the dictionary

  1. EGCG
  2. egd
  3. egds
  4. Egean
  5. Egeland
  6. egelid
  7. egence
  8. egences
  9. egency
  10. eger
  11. Egeria

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