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relucent, a. Now rare.|rɪˈl(j)uːsənt|
[ad. L. relūcent-em, pres. pple. of relūcēre to shine back: cf. lucent.]
Casting back light; shining, gleaming, bright, refulgent.
c1507Justes of May & June 32 in Hazl. E.P.P. II. 114 Theyr armure clen relucent without ruste. 1575Laneham Let. (1871) 48 Az it wear the Egiptian Pharos relucent vntoo all the Alexandrian coast. 1626T. H[awkins] tr. Caussin's Holy Crt. 172 Heauen sheweth it selfe wholy relucent in starrs and brightnesse. 1676Hobbes Iliad xxii. 135 As flaming fire relucent was the brass. 1727–46Thomson Summer 142 In brighter mazes the relucent stream Plays o'er the mead. 1883Harper's Mag. Jan. 182/2 A greater number of relucent points became visible.
transf. and fig.1512Helyas Prol. in Thoms E. Eng. Prose Rom. (1858) III. 15 Of such as were relucent in vertuous feates. a1529Skelton P. Sparowe 1159 Such relucent grace Is formed in her face. 1612R. Sheldon Serm. St. Martin's 17 [He] might contemplate the very diuine attributes, to be in an admirable sort relucent and resplendent, in the very humanitie of Christ. 1671MacWard True Nonconf. 393 The grace and principle of zeal which..is therein conspicuously relucent. 1897F. Thompson New Poems 33 The relucent song take for thy sacred meeds! |