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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

candens

, p. pr. of

candëre

to glitter. See

Heated to whiteness; glowing with heat.

“A candent vessel.”

Boyle.

Adj.

Very hot; heated to whiteness; glowing with heat.

candent ‎(comparative more candent, superlative most candent)

(now rare) Glowing as a result of its high temperature; incandescent, glowing with heat.
- 1958, Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar:
  beneath them also flowered, like some immense coloured crystal, a semicircle of lake water, candent and faithful as a magic lantern to the startled images of fish scattering and reforming with movements of surprise, curiosity, perhaps even pleasure.

candent