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Definition of Incalescent
1. a. Growing warm; increasing in heat.
Definition of Incalescent
1. Adjective. Becoming warmer, heating up. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Incalescent
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incalescent
Literary usage of Incalescent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson by Walter Scott, William James Rolfe (1898)
"An incalescent scorpion, And fierier for the mounded cirque That narrowed at him
thick and murk, This gambler with his genius Flung lives in angry volleys, ..."
2. The Table Talk of John Selden by John Selden, Richard Milward (1892)
"That, when he laid hold of the incalescent Cleopatra, he chose to contemplate
her at the age of sixteen and, in spite of the fact that sixteen was maturity ..."
3. Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1861)
"smoke from the incalescent Indian herb wanting to throw a harmon. izing haze over
the scene. The Queen arrived on the ground in an open carriage at 4 PM Her ..."
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