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Webster 1913 Edition


Albescent

Al-bes′cent

,
Adj.
[L.
albescens
, p. pr. of
albescere
to grow white, fr.
albus
white.]
Becoming white or whitish; moderately white.

Webster 1828 Edition


Albescent

ALBES'CENT

,
Adj.
[L. albesco, to grow white.]
Becoming white, or rather, whitish; moderately white.

Definition 2024


albescent

albescent

English

Adjective

albescent (comparative more albescent, superlative most albescent)

  1. Becoming white or whitish; moderately white.
    • 1726, The British Apollo: containing two thousand answers to curious questions in most arts and sciences, serious, comical, and humorous, approved of by many of the most learned and ingenious of both universities, and of the Royal-Society, volume 1, 3 edition, the Bell in Little Britain: printed for Theodore Sanders, page 67:
      This proceedeth from the variety of air (commonly found in islands) which sometimes being moist, sullies and renders the cornelian pale or albescent, after the manner of glass, which when breath'd upon, is clouded with a pale whitish colour, but upon change to a drier air, which will often happen in a moment, the cornelian recovers its former brisk red colour.

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Latin

Verb

albēscent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of albēscō