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单词 rutilate
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rutilatev.

Brit. /ˈruːtᵻleɪt/, /ˈrjuːtl̩eɪt/, U.S. /ˈrudlˌeɪt/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin rutilāt-, rutilāre.
Etymology: < classical Latin rutilāt-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix3) of rutilāre to glow with a bright or golden red colour < rutilus reddish, golden, shining (see rutilous adj.). Compare French rutiler (c1485 in Middle French as †rutiller in sense ‘to glow, shine, or gleam vividly’; c1470 as †rutiller in sense ‘(of a voice) to resound’), Italian rutilare (14th cent.).
literary. Now rare.
(a) intransitive. To glow, shine, gleam, glitter, with either a reddish or golden light; also with with; (b) transitive to cause to do this (obsolete).
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the world > matter > light > reflection > [verb (transitive)] > polish or cause to shine with reflected light
frot?c1225
burnishc1325
polisha1382
varnishc1405
silvera1592
shine1604
frub1611
rutilate1623
silken1757
gloss1762
pearl1843
gloze1880
lap1881
sheen1901
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Rutilate, to shine, to make to glister.
1647 R. Baron Εροτοπαιγνιον i. 57 Her glorious eyes did spark and rutilate, and eject rayes.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Rutilate,..to shine or glare, to make to shine or glister like Gold, to make bright, yellow.
1669 Addr. Hopeful Young Gentry 77 Our painter may fear to begin a face so full of life, as all his skill and oyl will be too little to rarifie and air, to brisk and rutilate.
1881 E. St J. Brenon Tribune Reflects 43 For good Thereby careering through the realm, like brands Of fire on foxes' tails, shall rutilate With civilizing flames our night of woe.
1911 H. Gerard tr. A. Maurel Little Cities of Italy I. iv. 170 The Casa dei Mercanti rutilates with all its restoration, the clock-tower flames its eighty metres of red stone in the sunlight.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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