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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

gelidly en · ADV

Etymology

From gelid + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) In a gelid manner; coldly, icily.
    • Those lights of human intelligence losing human expression, gelidly protruding like the alien eyes of certain uncatalogued creatures of the deep. 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 17, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
    • The United States Supreme Court, however, was not the colonial judiciary. It gelidly declined to co-operate with Washington. 1960, Louis W. Koenig, The Invisible Presidency, Rinehart, page 15:

Relateds

gelidity · gelidness