Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having a white-hot glow; incandescent.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Whitening; making white.
- Very hot; heated to whiteness; glowing with white heat.
Wiktionary
- adj. Glowing as a result of its high temperature; incandescent, glowing with heat.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Heated to whiteness; glowing with heat.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. emitting light as a result of being heated
Etymologies
- From Latin candentem, from candere. (Wiktionary)
- Latin candēns, candent-, present participle of candēre, to shine; see kand- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Humor hic niger aliquando praeter modum calefactus, et alias refrigeratus evadit: nam recentibus carbonibus ei quid simile accidit, qui durante flamma pellucidissime candent, ea extincta prorsus nigrescunt.”
“I cared nothing for Evalie then, caught in that limbo which at once was ice and candent core of rage.”
“Insula montes elati in coelum, quorum vertices perpetua niue candent, radices sempiterno igne æstuant.”
“Insula montes elati in coelum, quorum vertices perpetua niue candent, radices sempiterno igne 鎠tuant.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“Despite the candent heat and the dust that settled on us and our possessions like fur, it was a curiously agreeable trip.”
“A million hornets buzzed in rage, and lightnings flashed along the candent boundary, ceasing only when the spear point was withdrawn.”
“For the stars were scattered about in their myriads, dominantly ruby and ember, some yellow or candent, green or blue.”
“_Lumine sic tremulo terra et cava caerula candent_, to the thunderous oath of Achilles --”
“Thundering, he downward hurled his candent bolt 155”
The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper
“Tryal of my own, That having sometimes distilled some Woods, as particularly Box, whilst our _Caput mortuum_ remain'd in the Retort, it continued black like Charcoal, though the Retort were Earthen, and kept red-hot in a vehement Fire; but as soon as ever it was brought out of the candent Vessel into the open Air, the burning Coals did hastily degenerate or fall asunder, without the Assistance of any new”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘candent’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
caballine, cabas, cable, caboched, cabochon, caboose, cabotage, cabré, cabrie, cabriole, cabriolet, cacaesthesia and 1298 more...
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wallace
Remington, Windsor, prorector, wen, aver, mottle, seltzer, tepee, lapidary, effete, sotto, presbyopia and 355 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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eesome
Includes any intangible conceivable independently of Hom. Sap.
depthless, overspire, unsteady, thitherward, rile, munchable, covet, pastinaceous, mirtle, slonk, tink, inerrarable and 345 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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dark and bright words of shine and fi...
scotophil, scotoma, scotia, shed, shadow, shade, scone, whiting, edelweiss, light, lightning, lucina and 349 more...
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logophile
viresce, infinitum, transient, nonpareil, anon, therianthropy, lycomania, halcyon, unblinkered, seraphim, nephilim, moros and 160 more...
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Words I Learned on FreeRice.com
A place for me to keep all these weird words, whether I guessed them correctly or not.
pennoncel, serval, tautological, redact, ganef, candent, shaitan, bifid, osteal, ensiform, helve, ecdysis and 100 more...
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.fire
ash, burn, cinder, cinerary, ember, tinder, kindled, flint, brimstone, sulphur, saltpetre, paraffin and 5 more...
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do ...
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again By David Foster Wallace
miscegenating, zephyr, cessation, seepage, foliated, peoria, amorphous, virtuoso, caprice, apoplexy, gales, verve and 69 more...
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djilk's Words
epistemology, parsimony, entrepreneurism, entrepreneurialism, ontology, clandestine, introvert, irrational, otiose, cogredience, semioviparous, desiccate and 67 more...
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DFW's Strapping Vocabulary
existentiovoyeuri..., conundra, howling fantods, notwithstanding, catharts, miscegenating, scotophilic, candent, recalcitrant, glabrous, threnody, saurian and 66 more...
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freerice vocab
wrong answers + attractive new vocab
parturition, lyophilization, pharisaic, ligneous, hoyden, hyaloid, frangible, anthropophagous, edentulous, candent, sarcoid, intumescence and 33 more...
Tweets
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michaelt42 The gas mantle, which consists of a gas-jet heated metallic mesh coated with a suitable compound, typically oxide, of metals such as calcium and thorium, is candent at a lower temperature than the untreated metal. The source of the gaslight of the Victorian theatre, it is still in use today for illumination. Apr 13, 2012
hernesheir incandescent; white-hot. Jan 12, 2009
roseandivy A very candent candle! Mar 19, 2008