candĕ-făcĭo — Lewis & Short
candĕ-făcĭo, fēci, factum, 3, v. a.candeo.
I (Cf. candeo. I., and candidus.) To make dazzlingly white (ante- and postclass.):
argentum,Gell. 6, 5, 9;
and jestingly: ebur atramento candefacere, of an impossibility,Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 102; cf. atramentum.—
II To make glowing, to make red hot (very rare, not in Cic.):
quae candefieri non possunt,Plin. 33, 3, 20, § 64:
lapides candefactos,id. 34, 8, 20, § 96; 25, 10, 76, § 123; Cels. 6, 8, 1.