candied, ppl. a.
(ˈkændɪd)
Also 7 canded, 7–8 candid.
[f. candy v. + -ed1.]
1. Preserved or incrusted with sugar.
| 1616 R. C. Times' Whis. vi. 2771 Marmalade, Candid eringoes, & rich marchpaine stuff. 1620 Venner Via Recta vi. 106 Candied ginger. 1712 tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 151 Candied Orange Peel. 1859 Sala Tw. round Clock 56 Candied horehound. |
b. transf. and fig. Covered with anything crystalline or glistening, as hoar-frost.
| 1600 Fairfax Tasso vi. ciii. 114 The siluer moone..Spred frostie pearle on the canded ground. c 1750 Shenstone Odes Wks. 1764 I. 305 The winter's candy'd thorn. 1822 Hazlitt Table-t. Ser. ii. vii. (1869) 144 My sensations are all glossy..they wear a candied coat. |
2. Crystallized, congealed.
| 1641 Best Farm. Bks. (1856) 68 Putte up before it [honey] wax cold and canded. 1648 Earl Westmorld. Otia Sacra (1879) 88 When the clumsie Winter doth incline His candid Icicles. 1746 G. Adams Microgr. 238 The inside Cavity of it [a Flint] appear'd to be crusted all over with a pretty candid substance. 1810 Henry Elem. Chem. (1840) II. 198 Transparent crystals of sugar..called candied sugar. |
3. fig. ‘Sugared’, ‘honied’, flattering, glozing.
| 1602 Shakes. Ham. iii. ii. 65 The Candied tongue. 1649 Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 55 The candid poyson'd baits Of Jesuites. |