excandescent
English
editPronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -ɛsənt
Adjective
editexcandescent (comparative more excandescent, superlative most excandescent)
- Glowing with heat.
- 1883, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Addresses and Sermons Delivered During a Visit to the United States and Canada in 1878, Macmillan, page 164:
- He will at last prevail, if only we have the grace to recognise Him, to seize the opportunities which, out of these excandescent heats, fly off as sparks from the anvil.
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editReferences
edit- excandescent in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
- “excandescent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “excandescent”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Latin
editVerb
editexcandēscent