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candlestick|ˈkænd(ə)lstɪk|
Forms: see candle and stick.
[OE. candelsticca, f. candel candle + sticca stick. Cf. prec.: there is no ground for the inference that it was originally ‘a piece of pointed wood’; app. the earliest recorded meaning was the metallic ‘stalk’ or shaft of a candelabrum.]
1. A support for a candle; formerly a general name, including chandeliers, simple or branched, upright or pendent, branches, lustres, etc.; now chiefly a moveable stand for holding a candle.
c970Chart. Bp. æðelwold in Cod. Dipl. VI. 101, .11. sylure candelsticcan and .11. ouergylde etc. a1121O.E. Chron. an. 1102 Þet wæron roden..and candel sticcan. 1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 9374 A kandelstyke stode þe kyng before, Þat oute of Ierusalem was bore. 1387Trevisa Higden Rolls Ser. V. 207 He hadde a candle stikke [candelabrum] i-made by craft of honde so þat þe oyle schulde renne. 1552in Ch. Goods of Berks 8 Fyve brasenne candlestickes for thaulter. 1552Huloet, Candlestycke with thre braunches or lightes. 1599Minsheu Sp. Dict., Candeléro de tinieblas, a candle-branch that hath many candlestickes in it. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. iv. §6 (1873) 32 Set up one great light, or branching candlestick of lights. 1687Lond. Gaz. No. 2217/4 Two pair of small silver Chamber Candlesticks. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., Larger, and more stately candlesticks contrived for holding a great number of candles, are called branches and girondoles; and when made of glass, lustres. 1862C. Wordsworth New Test. Gen. Epist. 170 The word Candlestick has taken root in the English language as an emblem of a Church..but it does not rightly represent those λυχνίαι; which were similar to the Seven-branched λυχνίαι or Lampstands.
2. fig. (chiefly with reference to Rev. i. 20, in which the lighted candle is included.)
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 259/1 Thou spouse of god..thou candelstyk of lyȝt withoute derkenes. 1709Refl. Sacheverell's Serm. 9 The golden Candlesticks, as the seven petitioning Bishops were then call'd. 1882Farrar Early Chr. II. 359 The final removal of the candlestick of Judaism.
3. Comb., as candlestick-caster, candlestick-maker, candlestick turner, etc.
c1510Cocke Lorelles B. (1843) 10 Broche makers, glas blowers, candelstycke casts. 1599Nashe Lent. Stuffe (1871) 94 Candlestick-turners and tinkers. 1845Disraeli Sybil (1863) 25 Some monster of the middle class, some tinker or tailor, or candlestick-maker, with his long purse, preaching reform and practising corruption. 1867F. Francis Angling x. (1880) 346 The Candlestick Maker. This is a fly to light the salmon to bed with. 1852Dickens Bleak Ho. II. 236 (Hoppe), With a look candlestickwards.
Hence ˈcandlesticked ppl. a., set on a candlestick.
1884A. A. Putnam Ten Yrs. Police Judge xxviii. 226 A dozen such candles not hid under a bushel, but candlesticked and lighted on the bench. |