Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Growing hotter or more ardent.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Growing warm; increasing in heat.
Wiktionary
- adj. Becoming warmer, heating up.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Growing warm; increasing in heat.
Etymologies
- From Latin incalescent-, stem of incalescens, present participle of incalescere, from in + calescere ("to grow warm") (Wiktionary)
- Latin incalēscēns, incalēscent-, present participle of incalēscere, to grow warm : in-, intensive pref.; see in-2 + calēscere, to grow warm, inchoative of calēre, to be warm; see kelə-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“As he came closer, he saw what seemed to be a big boat made of metal, something still incalescent and boiling the water around it.”
“The conclusion seemed obvious "that these meteors are formed of very soft materials, which expand while incalescent, and are immediately crumbled and dissipated into exiguous dust.”
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
“That centre of convulsions and source of streams possessed the statistical orator, the reasoning orator, and the inspired; with others of quality; and yet it had need of an ever-ready spontaneous imperturbable speaker, whose bubbling generalizations and ability to beat the drum humorous could swing halls of meeting from the grasp of an enemy, and then ascend on incalescent adjectives to the popular idea of the sublime.”
“That centre of convulsions and source of streams possessed the statistical orator, the reasoning orator, and the inspired; with others of quality; and yet it had need of an ever - ready spontaneous imperturbable speaker, whose bubbling generalizations and ability to beat the drum humorous could swing halls of meeting from the grasp of an enemy, and then ascend on incalescent adjectives to the popular idea of the sublime.”
“The psychiatrist who met me there, Doctor Speare, had kind eyes that could quiet you in the most incalescent mania.”
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