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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin egelidus.
Adjective
egelid (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Lukewarm, tepid.
1755, Giles Watts, Reflections on Slow and Painful Labours, And other Subjects in Midwifery, page 73: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 […]
- 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)
- When it ceaſes to increaſe, as much as the circumſtances will allow, he muſt abſtain from every thing, except egelid water.
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