excandescent
English
Adjective
excandescent (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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Related terms
References
- excandescent in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
- excandescent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- “excandescent”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Latin
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