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excandescere

excandescere [CL], ~dēre [LL] , to blaze with anger, flare up; b (w. abstr. subj.). ~uit, in iracundiam exilivit GlC E 502; 1166 ad hec dominus R. aliquantulum adversus hec ~uit J. Sal. Ep. 145 (168); sicut preceptor puerilis excessus reprimit nec ~et Gir. PI I 6; demones ‥ ira ~escentes ‥ miserum ‥ discerpserunt Coggesh. Visio 21; 1291 R. de B‥. exposuit episcopo qualiter magistri universitatis Oxon. in eundem magistrum P. exscanduerant pro eo quod portavit commissionem prescriptam (Reg. Linc.) EHR XXVI 506; mox furor regis insevit et ~ens in iram Knighton I 327; s1176 clericus Scotus ‥ cum ‥ verba ‥ probrosa ‥ audierat ignitum velut ferrum ~ens Fordun Cont. VIII 26.  b ubi [sc. in communione angelorum] non inflatur superbia ‥ non ~escit ira Bald. Cant. Tract. 15. 550A; 1267 [ira] vitium pessimum est et maxime homini innaturale et in periculum ejus ~ens Bacon Maj. II 298.

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