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calescent
[ kuh-les-uhnt ]
adjective
- growing warm; increasing in heat.
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Other 51Թ Forms
- ··Գ noun
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of calescent1
First recorded in 1795–1805; from Latin ŧԳ- (stem of ŧŧԲ “becoming warm,” present participle of ŧ ), equivalent to cal- (stem of ŧ “to be warm”) + -ŧԳ- adjective suffix indicating the beginning of a process or action; -escent
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And: “Scottsdale’s dry climate contradicts the clammy calescent of New Guinean condensation.”
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Tisdale favors transitional words like quiescent, nascent, and calescent to make sentences quiver with dreamlike mutability; they are always changing and becoming.
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Chefs — like Aaron Silverman behind the calescent Rose’s Luxury — are opening places where they live.
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This calescent mode of proceeding was adopted with the idea of exciting a counter-irritation in the diseased part.
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It should be brought up slowly to just above its calescent or hardening temperature.
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