单词 | rutilate |
释义 | rutilatev. 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). ΘΚΠ 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). < v.1623 |
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