recandesco

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

rĕ-candesco, dŭi, 3, v. inch. n. (Ovidian). *

I To grow white ( again ): percussa recanduit unda, grew white with foam , Ov. M. 4, 529. —

II To grow hot ( again ), to glow : ubi tellus Solibus aetheriis ... recanduit, Ov. M. 1, 435: et rubuere genae, totoque recanduit ore (Medea), id. ib. 7, 78.—

2 Trop.: recanduit ira, Ov. M. 3, 707.

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    re-candēscō duī, ere, inch, to grow white again, whiten: percussa recanduit unda, O.—To grow white ...

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