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wax candle
A candle made of wax.
c725Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) F 419 Funalia, cerei, waex⁓condel. a1000Ags. Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 202/28 Cereus, wexcandel. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. lxi. (1495) 898 They that serue in chyrches of wexe candyls ben callyd Ceroferarii. c1450Mirk's Festial 295/2 Þan is þer anoþer cros of a wax-candul leyde on hys breste. a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. v. §1 Sitting in a chaire,..& looking upon a wax-candle which burnt before her. 1605P. Erondelle Fr. Gard. O 7 b, Make readie the Siluer-candlestickes with the waxe candles. 1753Hanway Trav. ii. xxxiii. I. 224 In the middle of the room..was one large wax-candle. 1840A. Marsh Father Darcy II. xviii. 300 Blazing wax candles. 1892Lady F. Verney Verney Mem. I. 22 Two great wax candles of 12 lbs. weight, to be burnt before the high altar of the church.
attrib.1663Cup of Coffee in D'Israeli Cur. Lit. (1866) 296/1 Should any of your grandsires' ghosts appear In your wax-candle circles. |