The corpus record — Latin

incandesco

to become warm

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Where it lives

Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 1 · 0.41/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

in-candesco — Lewis & Short

in-candesco, dŭi, 3,

I v. inch. n., to become warm or hot, to glow, to kindle (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): volat illud (plumbum) et incandescit eundo, Ov. M. 2, 728: vetus accensis incanduit ignibus ara, id. ib. 12, 12: spumis incanduit unda, Cat. 64, 13: tempestas totoque auctumni incanduit aestu, Verg. G. 3, 479: pars magna terrarum alto pulvere incanduit, Plin. Pan. 30, 3: aestas incanduit, Sen. Q. N. 3, 16, 3 (dub.; Haase, incaluit).—Trop.: studii mei ardor incanduit, was kindled, became strong, Symm. Ep. 1, 90.

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