Excandescent

Full definition of excandescent

Adjective

1. Glowing with heat.
• 1883, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Addresses and Sermons Delivered During a Visit to the United States and Canada in 1878, Macmillan, p. 164:He will at last prevail, if only we have the grace to recognise Him, to seize the opportunities which, out of these excandescent heats, fly off as sparks from the anvil.

Related terms

• excandescence
• incandescent