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candefacio

candĕ-făcĭo, fēci, factum, 3, v. a. [candeo].
  • (Cf. candeo. I., and candidus.) To make dazzlingly white (ante- and post-class.): argentum, Gell. 6, 5, 9; and jestingly: ebur atramento candefacere, of an impossibility, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 102 (258); cf. atramentum.—
  • II To make glowing, to make red hot (very rare, not in Cic.): quae candefieri non possunt, Plin. 33, 3, 20, § 64: lapides candefactos, id. 34, 8, 20, § 96; 25, 10, 76, § 123; Cels. 6, 8, 1.

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