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English
Etymology
Back-formation from incandescent or from Latin incandescere
Verb
incandesce (third-person singular simple present incandesces, present participle incandescing, simple past and past participle incandesced)
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become incandescent, especially by the application of heat.
1870, John Percy, The Metallurgy of Lead: Including Desilverisartion and Cupellation, page 24:It incandesces in sulphurous acid at ordinary temperatures, sulphate of protoxide of lead being the product; it also incandesces when triturated with ⅛th of its weight of cane-sugar, or ⅙th of grape-sugar.
1893, “Electrical Patents”, in Electrical Engineering: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine, page 63:The receiver is in the form of a hollow glass ring, a circular filament occupying an axial position within the hollow portion of the ring, and being composed of material such as carbon of small cross-section, that incandesces upon the passage of an electric current
Translations
To make or become incandescent
Latin
Verb
incandēsce
- second-person singular present active imperative of incandēscō