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‖ lumen siccum|ˈl(j)uːmɛn ˈsɛkʌm|
[L., = dry light.]
The dry light of rational knowledge or thought.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. f.48 But this same Lumen siccum, doth parch and offend most mens watry and soft natures. 1819Coleridge Philos. Lect. (1949) xiii. 374 Must there not be some power, call it with Lord Bacon the ‘lumen siccum’; or ‘the pure light’, with Lord Herbert;..that stands in human nature but in some participation of the eternal and the universal by which man is enabled to question, nay to contradict, the irresistible impressions of his own senses, nay, the necessary deductions of his own understanding? 1946Mind LV. 285 Taylor's intellect was no lumen siccum, but was always strongly personal in its approach and attitude. |