candent
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of candent
1570–80; < Latin candent- (stem of candēns, present participle of candēre to be shining white), equivalent to cand- bright ( see candid) + -ent- -ent
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Dressed in candent cot tons, he passes out sample boxes of Omo detergent, a fast-bubbling profit maker turned out by Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch combine that is the world's sixth biggest company.
From Time Magazine Archive
My candent bolts can in a moment reach And split their flying bark in the mid-sea.
From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper
Abysses closed about with night A tribute yield To her retardless sight; And Matter's gates disclose the candent ores Rock-held in furnaces of planet-cores.
From The Star-Treader and other poems by Clark Ashton Smith
Thundering, he downward hurled his candent bolt155 To the horse-feet of Diomede; dire fumed The flaming sulphur, and both horses drove Under the axle, belly to the ground.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper
In candent ire the solar splendour flames; The foles, languescent, pend from arid rames; His humid front the cive, anheling, wipes, And dreams of erring on ventiferous ripes.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
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