candle-lightern.
1. One who lights candles; spec. an acolyte.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > one who lights or carries
lighterc1400
primiceryc1460
candle-bearer1555
candle-holder1597
primicerio1695
candle-lighter1753
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Candle-lighter, an officer in the antient church, called also accensor and acolythus.
1853 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice II. iii. 51 Watching the candlelighter at his work, knocking his ladder about the heads of the capitals as if they had given him personal offence.
2. A thing for lighting a candle, etc.; a spill.
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > material for igniting > [noun] > match, spill, or taper for lighting
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match1519
brimstone match1594
card match1654
spunk1755
light1787
spill1821
lighter1828
candle-paper1829
fidibus1829
Promethean1829
sulphur-match1830
pipelight1842
candle-lighter1855
kitchen match1862
spiller1936
1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South II. v. 62 Her mother slept! She knew that she did, from the candle-lighter thrust through the keyhole of her bedroom door.
1856 W. Collins Stolen Letter in After Dark 67 A piece of paper, rolled up tight like those candle-lighters that the ladies make.
Derivatives
candle-lighting n.
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > twilight, dusk, or nightfall
nighteOE
evengloamOE
eveningOE
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darknessa1382
twilighting1387
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day-going?1552
cockshut1592
shutting1598
blind man's holiday1599
candle-lighting1605
gropsing1606
nightfall1612
dusk1622
torchlighta1656
candlelight1663
crepuscle1665
shut1667
mock-shade1669
close1696
duskish1696
glooma1699
setting1699
dimmit1746
to-fall of the day or night1748
darklins1767
even-close1781
mirkning1790
gloaming-shot1793
darkening1814
bat-flying time1818
gloama1821
between-light1821
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dayfall1823
evenfall1825
onfall1825
owl-hoot1832
glooming1842
darkfall1884
smokefall1936
dusk-light1937
the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > action of lighting
candle-lighting1605
1605 L. Hutten Answere 80 They washed at table and at candle-lighting.
1696 S. Sewall Diary I. 439 Just about Candle-lighting the news of it is brought to Town.
1784 Maryland Jrnl. 17 Sept. (advt.) Said School to begin at Candle-lighting, and continue till Nine o'Clock, p.m.
1835 H. W. Longfellow Prose Wks. (1857) 355 A short time after Candle-lighting.
1869 H. B. Stowe Oldtown Folks xxxiv. 449 Designing to bring up at the red school-house..at ‘early candle-lighting’.
1895 Dial. Notes 1 385 Evenin' meetin' took up at early candle-lightin'.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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