[ad. L. excandēscentia, recorded in fig. sense, nascent anger, passionateness, f. excandēsc-ĕre to grow white-hot, kindle, glow, f. ex- (see EX- pref.1) + candēscĕre, inceptive of candēre to be white, shine: see -ENCE.] Heat, the state of growing hot.
a. The action of bursting into a glow; the condition of giving out a glowing heat; a heated condition. † b. A state of violent anger; passion.
a. 1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., VIII. 306/2. The excandescence of the animal spirits, and the effervescence of the bloud and humours must be quieted.
1775. in Ash.
1832. in Webster.
1867. T. H. Dyer, Pompeii, xi. 45. Not in that state of excandescence in which they would have set fire to any thing.
b. 1730–6. Bailey (folio), Excandescence, great heat or wrath.
1775. in Ash, etc.
