Definitions
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- adjective obsolete Hot; burning; ardent.
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- adjective obsolete
hot ;burning ;ardent
Etymologies
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Latin calidus ("hot").
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Examples
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And was there frostwork about and thick weather and hice, soon calid, soon frozen, cold on warm but moistly dry, and a boatshaped blanket of bruma air-sighs and hellstohns and flammballs and vodashouts and every — thing to please everybody? —
Finnegans Wake 2006
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We had a short trip from Miami to Cartagena and we started feeling the calid breeze as soon as we stepped out of the plane.
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she commented on the word calid
adj., Warm, tepid; hot. Cf. gelid.
August 12, 2008
5814738 commented on the word calid
"The wall of the vast room, which were steaming with calid moisture, were built with gray slabs of stone and were the personal concern of a company of eighteen men known as the 'Gray Scrubbers.'" From Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake.
February 12, 2011