a. rare. [ad. L. calēscēnt-em, pr. pple. of calēscĕre to grow warm, inchoative from calēre to be warm.] Growing warm, glowing with heat.

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1804.  Huddesford, Wiccam. Chaplet, 162.

        While the calescent, sanguine flood,
By vile Vulgarity call’d Blood.

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