discandy

present singular third person discandies · participle present discandying · participle past discandied · past discandied

1. transitiveTo melt; to dissolve or thaw.

   Until some meaning tongue discandy and dissolve, its new vogue hidden face down beneath the bed.

   1991, Stephen Rodefer, Passing Duration, page 53

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   The hearts That spanieled me at heels, to whom I gave their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets.

   c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene xii]

   As doth this clay grow hard, and as this wax Discandies at the one and the same fire , — So Daphnis by our love.

   1855, Robert Corbet Singleton, The Works of Virgil closely rendered into English rhythm

   At 9:37 on a Friday evening , she let the present melt, discandy, and, by insensible chromatic yieldings, give way to the past.

   1955, Kansas Magazine, page 44

   In sum, this was an arena where rigid role definitions discandied, on stage and off, reflecting—and stirring—the anxiety of an age when social mobility reared up from an emerging market economy.

   2003, Alisa Solomon, Re-Dressing the Canon: Essays on Theatre and Gender, page 28

   If Freud's reading here — his progress on the "royal road to ... the unconscious" — is halted, and he finds himself unable to advance further along the way, this point of blockage is at the same time a point of branching -out or divergence: a point from which, says Freud, the thoughts of the dream discandy and disperse unreachably "in every direction into the intricate network of our world of thought" .

   2017, Steven Vine, “Introduction: Literature in Psychoanalysis”, in Steven Vine, editor, Literature in Psychoanalysis, page 13

2. To take or remove candy from.

   Beads of liquid fat in my tea discandy me with fear of ballooning out again.

   1978, The Miscellany - Issues 85-90, page 10

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   Proust's memory of a sweet crumb leads to the redemption of time; Gass's history as the history of things leads to the decay of a discandied world. Kohler presents a tour de force of memory in an account of a childhood candy shop; but, whatever beauty follows is contaminated by his anti-Semitism toward the store's owners.

   1998, Steven G. Kellman, Irving Malin, Into The Tunnel: Readings of Gass's Novel, page 45

   Or the broken deals. Proposing to exchange my toys for shares of the Halloween spoils he hoarded, I would discandy him first, swallow hard, then renege.

   2001, Arthur Michael Saltzman, Objects and Empathy: Essays, page 208