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calescent
[ kuh-les-uhnt ]
adjective
- growing warm; increasing in heat.
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³¦²¹Â·±ô±ð²õ·³¦±ð²Ô³¦±ð noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of calescent1
First recorded in 1795–1805; from Latin ³¦²¹±ôŧ²õ³¦±ð²Ô³Ù- (stem of ³¦²¹±ôŧ²õ³¦Å§²Ô²õ “becoming warm,†present participle of ³¦²¹±ôŧ²õ³¦±ð°ù±ð ), equivalent to cal- (stem of ³¦²¹±ôŧ°ù±ð “to be warmâ€) + -ŧ²õ³¦±ð²Ô³Ù- 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.â€
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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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