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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Becoming or growing white.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. rare Growing or becoming white.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Growing or becoming white.

Etymologies

  1. Latin albicans, present participle of albicare, albicatum, to be white, from albus white. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “So, too, his vivid and clearly-cut descriptions of nature in single lines and phrases stand out by themselves like golden tesserae in a mosaic, each distinct in a glittering atmosphere -- _qua tumidus rigat arva Nilus; opacam porticus excipiebat Arcton; nec prata canis albicant pruinis_ -- a hundred phrases like these, all exquisitely turned, and all with the same effect of detachment, which makes them akin to sculpture, rather than painting or music.”

    Latin Literature

  • “nec prata canis albicant pruinis. iam Cytherea choros ducit Venus imminente luna5”

    Tow Poems on the Return of Spring

  • “n. state of having wings; disposition of wings in insect. phr. - adj. belonging to bird family which includes the skylark; like or pertaining to skylark. albicant adj. - growing white. albication, n. albugo”

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