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† ˈradious, a. Obs.
Forms: 6 radius, radyuss, -ous, 6–8 radious.
[ad. F. radieux (15–16th c.), or L. radiōsus (Plautus), f. radius ray.]
1. Radiant, bright.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xlviii. 132 A radius croun of rubeis scho him gaif. 1552Lyndesay Monarche 5350 Thare Radious beymes ar turnit in reik. 1592R. D. Hypnerotomachia 79 Two pleasant radious and glistering eyes. 1610G. Fletcher Christ's Tri. i. xxxv, His radious head with shamefull thorns they teare. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §36. 582 That radious effulgency which, immediately encompassing them, is beheld together with them. 1692O. Walker Grk. & Rom. Hist. Illustr. 334 The Sun (as Constantine) radious.
b. Forming rays of light. rare.
1709Berkeley Th. Vision §90 The Intersection made by the Radious Pencils. 1733― Th. Vision Vind. §50 The Pictures, so called, being formed by the radious Pencils..are not so truly Pictures as Images.
2. Belonging to the radius of a circle or sphere; radial. rare—1.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §36. 598 The Centre, Radious Distance, and Movable Circumference, may be all said to be Co-Essential to a Sphere. |