CANDAY´A (_The kingdom of_), situate between the great Trapoba´na and the South Sea, a couple of leagues beyond cape Com´orin.--Cervantes, _Don Quixote_, II. iii. 4 (1615). 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. CANMORE or GREAT-HEAD, Malcolm III. of Scotland (1057-1093).--Sir W. Scott, _Tales of a Grandfather_, i. 4. CANNING (_George_), statesman (1770-1827). Charles Lamb calls him: St. Stephen's fool, the zany of debate. _Sonnet in "The Champion_." CANO´POS, Meneläos's pilot, killed in the return voyage from Troy by the bite of a serpent. The town Canöpos (Latin, _Canopus_) was built on the site where the pilot was buried. CAN´TAB, a member of the University of Cambridge. The word is a contraction of the Latin _Cantabrig´ia_. CAN´TACUZENE´ (_4 syl._), a noble Greek family, which has furnished two emperors of Constantinople, and several princes of Moldavia and Wallachia. The family still survives. We mean to show that the Cantacuzenês are not the only princely family in the world.--D'Israeli, _Lothaire_. There are other members of the Cantacuzenê family besides myself.--Ditto. _Can´tacuzene´_ (_Michael_), the grand sewer of Alexius Comne´nus, emperor of Greece.--Sir W. Scott, _Count Robert of Paris_. (time, Rufus).