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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
candied
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
candied fruit
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Another speciality is Naples Easter cake, a shortcrust pastry case filled with ricotta cheese, candied fruit and spices.
▪ Decorate with candied peel and angelica.
▪ I ... I was next door getting some more of those candied mice.
▪ Lightly knead the dough on a floured surface, working in the candied peel, raisins and sultanas.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Candied

Candied \Can"died\, a. [From 1st Candy.]

  1. Preserved in or with sugar; incrusted with a candylike substance; as, candied fruits.

    1. Converted wholly or partially into sugar or candy; as candied sirup.

    2. Conted or more or less with sugar; as, candidied raisins.

    3. Figuratively; Honeyed; sweet; flattering.

      Let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp.
      --Shak.

  2. Covered or incrusted with that which resembles sugar or candy.

    Will the cold brook, Candiedwith ice, caudle thy morning tast?
    --Shak.

  3. smoothly coated with crystals of sugar; -- used especially of fruits; as, a candied apple.

    Syn: candied, crystallized, glac['e], glac['e]ed.

Candied

Candy \Can"dy\ (k[a^]n"d[y^]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Candied (k[a^]n"d[=e]d); p. pr & vb. n. Candying.] [F. candir (cf. It. candire, Sp. az['u]car cande or candi), fr. Ar. & Pers. qand, fr. Skr. Kha[.n][.d]da piece, sugar in pieces or lumps, fr. kha[.n][.d], kha[.d] to break.]

  1. To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.

  2. To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup.

  3. To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy.

    Those frosts that winter brings Which candy every green.
    --Drayson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
candied

c.1600, past participle adjective from candy (v.).

Wiktionary
candied
  1. 1 coated or encrusted with sugar 2 preserved in sugar or syrup by baking till it becomes translucent v

  2. (en-pastcandy)

WordNet
candied
  1. adj. encrusted with sugar or syrup; "candied grapefruit peel" [syn: sugar-coated]

  2. used especially of fruits [syn: crystalized, crystalised, glace]

candy
  1. n. a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts

  2. [also: candied]

candy
  1. v. coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze [syn: sugarcoat, glaze]

  2. [also: candied]

candied

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Usage examples of "candied".

Sond propped himself up among his cushions on one elbow and passed the plate of candied fruit to his guest.

Europe, the availability of the mild, fiberless crystallized ginger of Australia has sparked a recent upsurge in the consumption of candied ginger.

The cook prepared a sumptuous meal after sunset, roasting a side of ribs from the slaughtered shoat and serving it with a sauce of apricots and plums, riverweed fried with ginger, and side dishes of candied sweet potatoes and cassava porridge flavored with cumin.

It is, at bottom, a rich yellow lemon pound cake, unleavened, slightly underbaked, and filled with a volume of fruit and nuts equal to that of the cake batter green and red candied cherries and pineapple, walnuts, and yellow raisins.

Sometimes bits of paper adhere to the bottom lip and the smoker, pulling them away, reveals the candied lower teeth against the pulpy gums.

Armand, bravely spruc'd up, even drops by, tho' his heart, he will assure anyone who asks, is desolated, with a strangely festive Pudding he has whisk'd together, loaded with Currants, candied Violets, dried apricots, peaches, and cherries chopp'd fine with almonds and rejuvenated in Raspberry Brandy.

Consider: had you not been kicked out of a fine castle for love of Mistress Cunégonde—had you not come under the Inquisition—had you not travelled over America on foot—had you not run the Baron through the body—had you not lost your sheep from the good country of El Dorado—why, then, you would not now be here, to eat candied citrons and pistachio nuts.

The vegetables included bacon and collard greens, black-eyed peas, smothered okra, candied yams, string bean casserole, and cranberry sauce.

Kyle, who could have subsisted for a week on the food Governor Donar consumed during that single meal, settled for a green salad, a freshly baked scone, a serving of runyip stew, and then, because he couldn't resist, a bowl of candied insects.

Apple pies, fritters, turnovers, apple butter, jelly, pickled apples and candied apples.

They brought little bottles containing Martinis and Manhattans, and they brought celery and olives and carrot sticks, and they brought onion soup, and they brought roast beef and turkey and candied sweet potatoes and asparagus tips au gratin and coffee, tea or milk, and orange sherbet and chocolate layer cake and little mints and—.

Pigeon-egg soup, with lotus roots and dumplings and crushed pine kernels was followed by ducks' tongues cooked in sesame oil with mushrooms and bamboo shoots, which were followed by the ducks themselves at least three which had been stuffed with shellfish and steamed inside a cover of hardened bean curd, which were followed by spider crabs simmered in sweet white wine, which were followed by lamb kidneys sauteed with minced walnuts, which were followed by honeycakes, which were followed by candied fruits, which were followed by sweetmeats, which were followed by green tea, which was followed by plum wine, which was followed by Daffodil Digestive Tonic, which was followed by .

Pigeon-egg soup, with lotus roots and dumplings and crushed pine kernels was followed by ducks' tongues cooked in sesame oil with mushrooms and bamboo shoots, which were followed by the ducks themselves -- at least three -- which had been stuffed with shellfish and steamed inside a cover of hardened bean curd, which were followed by spider crabs simmered in sweet white wine, which were followed by lamb kidneys sauteed with minced walnuts, which were followed by honeycakes, which were followed by candied fruits, which were followed by sweetmeats, which were followed by green tea, which was followed by plum wine, which was followed by Daffodil Digestive Tonic, which was followed by .

The portly man blinked, bit deep into his candied apple, and moved away from the war veteran.

Why don't you run along and make sure Marjorie's not breaking out in a cold sweat over the idea of being served up with candied apple rings?