discandy

discandy (third-person singular simple present discandies, present participle discandying, simple past and past participle discandied)

1. (transitive) To melt; to dissolve or thaw.
   • c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :

     The hearts That spanieled me at heels, to whom I gave their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets.

   • 1855, Robert Corbet Singleton, The Works of Virgil closely rendered into English rhythm:

     As doth this clay grow hard, and as this wax Discandies at the one and the same fire , — So Daphnis by our love.

   • 1955, Kansas Magazine, page 44:

     At 9:37 on a Friday evening , she let the present melt, discandy, and, by insensible chromatic yieldings, give way to the past.

   • 1991, Stephen Rodefer, Passing Duration, page 53:

     Until some meaning tongue discandy and dissolve, its new vogue hidden face down beneath the bed.

   • 2003, Alisa Solomon, Re-Dressing the Canon: Essays on Theatre and Gender, page 28:

     In sum, this was an arena where rigid role definitions discandied, on stage and off, reflecting—and stirring—the anxiety of an age when social mobility reared up from an emerging market economy.

   • 2017, Steven Vine, “Introduction: Literature in Psychoanalysis”, in Steven Vine, editor, Literature in Psychoanalysis, page 13:

     If Freud's reading here — his progress on the "royal road to ... the unconscious" — is halted, and he finds himself unable to advance further along the way, this point of blockage is at the same time a point of branching -out or divergence: a point from which, says Freud, the thoughts of the dream discandy and disperse unreachably "in every direction into the intricate network of our world of thought" .

   • 2020, John Channing Briggs, Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered, page 132:

     The Great Compromise of 1850, which was negotiated through Congress by Stephen Douglas, would discandy, revealing deepening sectional divisions over slavery that were splitting the Whigs and threatening to break up the Democrats.

2. To take or remove candy from.
   • 1978, The Miscellany - Issues 85-90, page 10:

     Beads of liquid fat in my tea discandy me with fear of ballooning out again.

   • 1998, Steven G. Kellman, Irving Malin, Into The Tunnel: Readings of Gass's Novel, page 45:

     Proust's memory of a sweet crumb leads to the redemption of time; Gass's history as the history of things leads to the decay of a discandied world. Kohler presents a tour de force of memory in an account of a childhood candy shop; but, whatever beauty follows is contaminated by his anti-Semitism toward the store's owners.

   • 2001, Arthur Michael Saltzman, Objects and Empathy: Essays, page 208:

     Or the broken deals. Proposing to exchange my toys for shares of the Halloween spoils he hoarded, I would discandy him first, swallow hard, then renege.