incandescere

incandescere [CL], ~ēre [LL] 1 to glow with heat, become red- or white-hot; b (fig.). in hunc ignem pone lignum aliquod, plumbum, et ferrum simul. itaque cum lignum fuerit in carbones conversum, et plumbum liquefactum, ita ut in carbonibus nihil nisi ignis appareat, et plumbo nihil caloris addi queat, necdum tamen ferro poterunt in calore coequari, quod nondum forsan penitus ~uit igne Eadmer Beat. 12; omne frigidum calore ~escit R. Cold. Cuthb. 47 p. 97; cui sol ~uit a Cancro Map NC IV 3 f. 45v; s1377 fuscinulis ferreis ~entibus ‥ ejus carnes ‥ ab ossibus ejus ‥ discerpserunt Chr. Angl. 110. b Martis campus ~uerat; totis enim viribus utrinque certabatur Ord. Vit. IX 8 p. 509; zelique facibus totus incandeo Walt. Wimb. Carm. 534. 2 (of person or passion) to become excited or inflamed. cum ‥ ardor crudelitatis acrius ~uisset Aldh. VirgP 51; 800 mox iracundiae flammis ~uit Alcuin Ep. 200 (= Id. Dogm. 232A); a984 ~uit Judea ingenti rancore repleta (Æthelwold Ch.) Conc. Syn. 123; in familie mee principes ‥ ~uisti Adel. ED 10; c1140 solo virtutis amore igne spiritus ~uisse G. Foliot Ep. 12; 1156 doleo quod quorumdam dominorum ‥ in me ~uit indignatio J. Sal. Ep. 104 (10); s1178 ~uit Algarus ad verba egroti ira vehementi Wend. I 113; miles vero pro repulsione furore terribili totus ~uit Grim Thom. 81; subito cor tuum ~uit Medit. Farne 51; ire incendio ‥ ~uit NLA II 69 (v. deliberatorie). 3 (assoc. w. incanescere) to be or become white. (This use is treated as CL by TLL, quoting Catullus 64.13: spumis incanduit unda; the MSS are 14–15c, and modern edd. read incanuit.). nix etenim in omni abundantissime terra ~uerat et gelu horridissime aquas induruerat G. Steph. 72; pars barbe lymphis istis lota canis ~uerat, altera parte ‥ fusca manente Gir. TH II 7; limpha, merum, panis, caro, piscis, friget, abundat, / incandet, nutrit, vivit in ede proba Garl. Tri. Eccl. 110.

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