candidated

Verb (1)

candidate (third-person singular simple present candidates, present participle candidating, simple past and past participle candidated)

1. (uncommon) To stand as a candidate for an office, typically for a religious one.
   • The matter of candidating for a pulpit is not a matter of difference between congregations and Rabbis, but between Rabbis themselves.1906, Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, page 196
2. (nonstandard, uncommon, chiefly jargon and non-native speakers' English) To make or name (something) as a candidate (to be chosen or deemed suitable for a purpose).
   • Performance comparison of solar energy conversion candidated for SPS. (From NASA, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston 1977.)1982, Brian O'Leary, Space industrialization, CRC

Verb (2)

candidate (third-person singular simple present candidates, present participle candidating, simple past and past participle candidated)

1. (figuratively, obsolete, rare, transitive, uncommon) To make white; to whitewash.

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