† relucev.
Obsolete.
intransitive. To reflect light, to shine.
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the world > matter > light > reflection > [verb (intransitive)] > be reflected (as an image)
again-shinea1382
reluce?a1425
reflect1608
mirror1832
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 66 (MED) Som spirit may reluce [L. elucere], i. shyne, And with þis þe membre is decorate, i. made faire.
1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) iv. xxviii. f. lxxiiijv In euery creature..ther relucith a beme of this bryght myrrour.
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope ix The Foxe..shewed to the wulf the shadowe of the mone whiche reluced in the well.
1550 J. Colyn Prologue in T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War f. vi Assay by your power to transforme youre selfe into ye vertues, that youe shall perceyue to reluce and shyne in suche excellent parsones.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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