CANDICANT

CANDICANT

ADJ.
growing white; inclining to white; whitish; waxing white, like the morning ...1657 obs. rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin candicantem pr. pple. of candicare to be whitish or white
 
 FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1657 - see Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...small cups, with candicant flowers..."
 
From: A Medicinal Dispensatory: Containing the Whole Body of Physick
Composed by the Illustrious Renodæus, Chief Physician to the Monarch of France,
Translated by Richard Tomlinson of London, Apothecary, 1657
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
James Murray, 1887-1933
• Dictionary of Early English, Joseph Shipley, 1955
• A Standard Dictionary of the English Language, Isaac K. Funk, 1908
• A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Thomas Sheridan, 1790
• Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language,
​Noah Porter, 1895