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candescent, a. rare.|kænˈdɛsənt|
[ad. L. candēscent-em, pr. pple. of candēscĕre to become white, begin to glow, inchoative from candēre: see candent.]
Glowing with, or as with, heat.
1824Beddoes Let. in Poems Introd. 34 The moment he [the sun] touched [the Alps], it appeared that all the snows took fire, and burned with a candescent brilliancy. 1863Q. Rev. CXIV. 540 The spark..cast forth from the candescent metal. 1884L. Wallace Ben-hur i. xiv. 68 The star..less candescent than before.
Hence canˈdescently adv., glowingly, dazzlingly.
1883R. Broughton Belinda ii. ii, Candescently white. |