I. (Cf. candeo. I., and candidus.) To make dazzlingly white (ante- and postclass.): “argentum,” Gell. 6, 5, 9; “and jestingly: ebur atramento candefacere, of an impossibility,” Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 102; 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.