Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Growing hotter or more ardent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Growing warm; increasing in heat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Growing warm; increasing in heat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Becoming
warmer , heating up.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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As he came closer, he saw what seemed to be a big boat made of metal, something still incalescent and boiling the water around it.
Far Beyond the Stars Steven Barnes 2000
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As he came closer, he saw what seemed to be a big boat made of metal, something still incalescent and boiling the water around it.
Far Beyond the Stars Steven Barnes 2000
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The conclusion seemed obvious "that these meteors are formed of very soft materials, which expand while incalescent, and are immediately crumbled and dissipated into exiguous dust."
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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That centre of convulsions and source of streams possessed the statistical orator, the reasoning orator, and the inspired; with others of quality; and yet it had need of an ever-ready spontaneous imperturbable speaker, whose bubbling generalizations and ability to beat the drum humorous could swing halls of meeting from the grasp of an enemy, and then ascend on incalescent adjectives to the popular idea of the sublime.
Beauchamp's Career — Complete George Meredith 1868
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That centre of convulsions and source of streams possessed the statistical orator, the reasoning orator, and the inspired; with others of quality; and yet it had need of an ever-ready spontaneous imperturbable speaker, whose bubbling generalizations and ability to beat the drum humorous could swing halls of meeting from the grasp of an enemy, and then ascend on incalescent adjectives to the popular idea of the sublime.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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That centre of convulsions and source of streams possessed the statistical orator, the reasoning orator, and the inspired; with others of quality; and yet it had need of an ever - ready spontaneous imperturbable speaker, whose bubbling generalizations and ability to beat the drum humorous could swing halls of meeting from the grasp of an enemy, and then ascend on incalescent adjectives to the popular idea of the sublime.
Beauchamp's Career — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868
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The psychiatrist who met me there, Doctor Speare, had kind eyes that could quiet you in the most incalescent mania.
qms commented on the word incalescent
Some girls become addled in pubescence
And boy bands preside in their adolescence.
As parents try harder
To dampen their ardor
The girls just become incalescent.
May 30, 2019