excandescent

• Rhymes: -ɛsənt

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.

• excandescence
• incandescent

• excandescent in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
• “excandescent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “excandescent”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

excandēscent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of excandēscō