Candide´ (2 syl.), the hero of Voltaire's novel of the same name. He believes that "all things are for the best in the best of all possible worlds."
Voltaire says "No." He tells you that Candide
Found life most tolerable after meals.
Byron, Don Juan, v. 31 (1820).
Candour (Mrs.), the beau-ideal of female backbiters.—Sheridan, The School for Scandal (1777).
Can´idia, a Neapolitan, beloved by the poet Horace. When she deserted him, he held her up to contempt as an old sorceress who could by charms unsphere the moon.—Horace, Epodes, v. and xvii.
Such a charm were right Canidian.
Mrs. Browning,
Hector in the Garden
, iv.