excandescent

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛsənt

Adjective

excandescent (comparative more excandescent, superlative most excandescent)

1. 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.

Related terms

• excandescence
• incandescent

References

• Noah Webster (1828) “excandescent”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume I (A–I), New York, N.Y.: […] S. Converse; printed by Hezekiah Howe […], →OCLC.
• “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

Verb

excandēscent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of excandēscō