A candle made of wax.
c. 725. Corpus Gloss. (Hessels), F 419. Funalia, cerei, waex-condel.
a. 1000. Ags. Gloss., in Wr.-Wülcker, 202/28. Cereus, wexcandel.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XIX. lxi. (1495), 898. They that serue in chyrches of wexe candyls ben callyd Ceroferarii.
c. 1450. Mirk’s Festial, 295/2. Þan is þer anoþer cros of a wax-candul leyde on hys breste.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, II. v. § 1. Sitting in a chaire,… & looking upon a wax-candle which burnt before her.
1605. Erondelle, Fr. Gard., O 7 b. Make readie the Siluer-candlestickes with the waxe candles.
1753. Hanway, Trav., II. xxxiii. I. 223–4. In the middle of the room upon the floor. was one large wax-candle.
1848. Mrs. A. Marsh, Father Darcy, II. xviii. 299–300. The immense candlesticks support a multitude of blazing wax candies.
1892. Lady F. Verney, Verney Mem., I. 22. Two great wax candles of 12 lbs. weight, to be burnt before the high altar of the church.
attrib. 1663. Cup of Coffee, in D’Israeli, Cur. Lit. (1866), 296/1. Should any of your grandsires’ ghosts appear In your wax-candle circles.
