discandy
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3ADJ.
insensible, present
VERB + DISCANDY
melt, wishes
DISCANDY + NOUN
sweets
Definitions
verb
To melt; to dissolve or thaw.
The hearts That spanieled me at heels, to whom I gave their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets.
As doth this clay grow hard, and as this wax Discandies at the one and the same fire , — So Daphnis by our love.
To take or remove candy from.
Beads of liquid fat in my tea discandy me with fear of ballooning out again.
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.
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3The hearts That spanieled me at heels, to whom I gave their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets.
WiktionaryAs doth this clay grow hard, and as this wax Discandies at the one and the same fire , — So Daphnis by our love.
WiktionaryAt 9:37 on a Friday evening , she let the present melt, discandy, and, by insensible chromatic yieldings, give way to the past.
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