gelid

adj

1. (literary)Very cold; icy or frosty; frigid.

   “Of Cassandra-Marat we have spoken often; yet the most surprising truth remains to be spoken: that he actually does not want sense; but, with croaking gelid throat, croaks out masses of the truth, on several things.”

   “Above the gelid source of mountain springs, ⁠A solitary eagle, circling, flies.”

   “In the worst of summer the tower remained cool, yet the air seemed feverish and gelid when sisters of different Ajahs came too close.”

   “For a while he stares out of the window. It is twilight - cold, deepening twilight. Over the roofs of the opposite house-backs, two garden lengths away, the sky is gelid, luminous, sad. A quiet albescent yellow. Everything is very still.”