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▪ I. luminary, n.|ˈl(j)uːmɪnərɪ|
[ad. F. luminaire masc. (early OF. luminarie), ad. med.L. lūminārium, lūmināre, f. lūmin-, lūmen light: cf. -ary.]
1. A natural light-giving body, esp. a celestial body; pre-eminently applied to the sun or the moon. † the luminaries often = the sun and moon.
1489Caxton Faytes of A. iv. xvii. 279 The golde representeth the sonne whiche is a right noble lumynarye. 1559W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 11 Imagining the luminaries to haue their course vnder all the other Planetes. 1615T. Tomkis Albumazar v. i. K 2 b, Search your Natiuitie: see if the Fortunates And Luminaries be in a good Aspect. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. Pref. (1848) 24 For though the stars cannot, the Luminaries can, cloathe the..vapours of the air, with the colour of Gold and of Roses. 1667― in Phil. Trans. II. 606 Both of them [rotten Wood and burning Coal] are Luminaries, that is, give Light. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 576 Where the great Luminarie Alooff the vulgar Constellations thick,..Dispenses Light from farr. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) I. 8 All other planets that depend upon our great luminary for their support. 1820Scott Abbot i, The level surface of the lake..was gilded with the beams of the setting luminary. 1881R. Routledge Science i. 15 Pythagoras conceived the planets to revolve around the central luminary.
b. transf. nonce-use. (As if ‘astrological signs’.)
a1639Wotton Life Dk. Buckhm. in Reliq. (1651) 77 Who, I know not upon what Luminaries he spyed in his face, disswaded him from Marriage.
2. An artificial light; † in Caxton collect. sing. (cf. F. luminaire); † in 17th c. pl., illuminations betokening rejoicing (so med.L. luminaria).
1483Caxton G. de la Tour cxxxvi. 193 She..gaf these torches, and alle suche other lumynary as it neded therto. c1510Barclay Mirr. Gd. Manners (1570) G ij, None closeth in a corner a kindled luminary. 1605B. Jonson Masque Blackness Wks. 1616 I. 897 The dressing of her head antique; & crown'd with a Luminarie, or Sphere of light. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) I. 135 There were luminaries of joy lately here for the victory that Don Gonzalez de Cordova got over Count Mansfelt in the Netherlands. 1692Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) II. 598 There were extraordinary luminaries in all the windows in the publick streets. 1706Cotes tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 16th C. II. iv. xviii. 266 The Church..has introduced Ceremonies, such as mystical Benedictions, Luminaries [etc.]. 1892Stevenson Across the Plains 213 [They] began to garnish their windows with our particular brand of luminary.
3. fig. A source of intellectual, moral, or spiritual light (now only of persons, formerly also occas. of things); a person of ‘light and leading’.
a1450Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 288 [To Herod] O thou luminarye of pure lightnes! a1529Skelton Prayer to Father of Heaven, O radiant Luminary of lyght intermynable, Celestial Father. 1557Paynel Barclay's Jugurth 89 The glorious dedes..of forefathers be like an example or luminary vnto their of spring or progeny. 1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §12 In this mass of nature there is a set of things which to wiser..Reasons serve as Lumenaries in the Abyss of knowledge. 1692Bentley 8 Serm. (1724) 108 A late happy Discovery by two great Luminaries of this Island. 1773Johnson in Boswell 19 Oct., We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions. 1797Godwin Enquirer ii. ix. 324 Mr. Fox..the greatest luminary of the present house of commons. 1854H. Rogers Ess. II. i. 2 Like the other great luminaries of philosophy and science, Locke has shone on with tolerably uniform lustre. 1860Trollope Framley P. i, Here is one of the luminaries of your diocese.
▪ II. ˈluminary, a. rare.
[f. L. lūmin-, lūmen light + -ary.]
Pertaining to light.
1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. II. xxi. 416 Without the influence of light, vegetables would..be deprived of their beautiful shades by the interception of the luminary fluid. 1889Anthony's Photogr. Bull. II. 399 While the so-called cirri or land clouds have an average height of 13 kilometres, the luminary night clouds float at a height of 75 kilometres. |