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candied, ppl. a.|ˈkændɪd|
Also 7 canded, 7–8 candid.
[f. candy v. + -ed1.]
1. Preserved or incrusted with sugar.
1616R. C. Times' Whis. vi. 2771 Marmalade, Candid eringoes, & rich marchpaine stuff. 1620Venner Via Recta vi. 106 Candied ginger. 1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 151 Candied Orange Peel. 1859Sala Tw. round Clock 56 Candied horehound.
b. transf. and fig. Covered with anything crystalline or glistening, as hoar-frost.
1600Fairfax Tasso vi. ciii. 114 The siluer moone..Spred frostie pearle on the canded ground. c1750Shenstone Odes Wks. 1764 I. 305 The winter's candy'd thorn. 1822Hazlitt Table-t. Ser. ii. vii. (1869) 144 My sensations are all glossy..they wear a candied coat.
2. Crystallized, congealed.
1641Best Farm. Bks. (1856) 68 Putte up before it [honey] wax cold and canded. 1648Earl Westmorld. Otia Sacra (1879) 88 When the clumsie Winter doth incline His candid Icicles. 1746G. Adams Microgr. 238 The inside Cavity of it [a Flint] appear'd to be crusted all over with a pretty candid substance. 1810Henry Elem. Chem. (1840) II. 198 Transparent crystals of sugar..called candied sugar.
3. fig. ‘Sugared’, ‘honied’, flattering, glozing.
1602Shakes. Ham. iii. ii. 65 The Candied tongue. 1649Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 55 The candid poyson'd baits Of Jesuites. |