v. Obs. [ad. L. succendĕre, f. suc- = SUB- 2 + *candĕre, related to candēre to glow with heat.] trans. To set on fire, kindle, burn.

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1432–50.  trans. Higden (Rolls), III. 85. A potte succendede. Ibid., 249. Esdras the scribe repairede the lawe brente and also succendede by men of Calde.

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1477.  Norton, Ord. Alch., v. in Ashm. (1652), 64. Ruby colour is of a thinn fume succended In a cleere Body.

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