accensus

ūs, m.

accendo

I. a kindling or setting on fire: lucernarum, Plin. 37, 7, 29, § 103 dub. (al. assensu): luminum, Symm. 3, 48; Plin. 37, 7, 29, acc. to Hard.
Lewis & Short
A Latin Dictionary, 1879
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