Definition of "Candy"

Assure thy selfe that as for me I never will agreeThat Candie Joves owne foster place (as long as I there raigne)Shall unto such a monstruous Wight a Harbrow place remaine.

1567, Ovid, “The Eighth Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […]

Orsino, this is that AntonioThat took the Phoenix and her fraught from Candy;And this is he that did the Tiger board,When your young nephew Titus lost his leg:

c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene i]

[…] if to renown / Your honours through the world, to fix your names, / Like Blazing stars admir’d, and fear’d by all / That have but heard of Candy or a Cretan, / Be to deserve the approvement of my man-hood, / Then thus much have I done:

c. 1619, John Ford (formerly attributed to Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher), The Laws of Candy, Act I, Scene 2

CRETE, or Candy, as at present call’d, was taken by the Turks from the Possession of the brave Venetians, who defended it some Years against a constant Siege, and made the Place a bloody Purchase to the Turkish Army:

1709, Aaron Hill, chapter 27, in A Full and Just Account of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire in All its Branches‎, London, page 218

Mr. W. H. GREGORY, the accomplished Member for Galway, goes to Ceylon as Governor. […] A pleasant exile, and a safe return, are Mr. Punch’s sweet wishes to him who departeth for Candy.

1872 January 20, Punch

The First is the City of Candy, so generally called by the Christians, probably from Conde, which in the Chingulays Language signifies Hills, for among them it is situated […]

1681, Robert Knox, chapter 2, in An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon‎, London: R. Chiswell, page 5

Suddenly, to his horror, Mr Candy found himself in what Ma would have called a terrible two-and-eight.

1963, H. E. Bates, Oh! To be in England

The phone was then handed over to the other perpetrating programmer of SPECTACLE who described himself as 'the other Simon' who talked me through some of the program's low spots while Robin Candy punched the buttons on the Spectrum.

1985 March, Crash, number 14, page 62