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(chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) A vigil lamp; a cresset, usually hanging and richly decorated, containing a floating wick fed by oil, which is placed before icons and altars.
1844, Ljudevit Gaj, Danica horvatska, slavonska i dalmatinska, volume 10, number 42:
U jednom kutu visila je jednostavna bezuresna ikona, pred kojom je gorelo malo kandilo.
In one corner hung a plain undecorated icon, before which burned a small vigil lamp.
Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Pero Budmani, editor (1892–1897), “kàndilo”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 4, Zagreb: JAZU, page 818
“kandilo”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
