scintillantadj.adv.n.

1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. iv. 95 He beareth seuen Firebrands Flammant, and Scintillant, Proper.

1869 J. E. Cussans Handbk. Heraldry (rev. ed.) viii. 119 Scintillant, emitting sparks.

1900 Reliquary Apr. 124 There is something like an attenuated saltire ragule, in its quarters badges of the Golden Fleece, i.e., those which composed the collar, the steel and the flint scintillant.

2006 B. A. McAndrew Scotland's Hist. Heraldry Glossary p. xxii Scintillant, sparkling, or emitting sparks.

1611 T. Coryate Crambe sig. A^v That you would..cherish and maintaine the scintillant embers of my diminutiue Lampe by infusing into them the quickning Oyle of your Gracious indulgence.

1664 M. Mackaile Moffet-well 46 Why the eyes of a Cat, and the flesh of many fishes, ar luminous in the dark, seing the most scintillent Diamond is defficient in this?

1737 M. Green Spleen 219 Who can view the pointed rays, That from black eyes scintillant blaze?

1789 R. Kerr tr. A. Lavoisier Elements Chem. 497 Red scintilant zeolite from Edelfors.

1864 G. M. Musgrave Ten Days in French Parsonage II. ii. 53 Cloth of gold,..silk, and other scintillant adornments.

1890 W. C. Russell My Shipmate Louise III. xli. 289 By this time the island had melted into the scintillant dusk of the sky.

1932 ‘B. Ross’ Trag. of Y i. i. 29 The scintillant trickle of the Hudson.

1986 D. Koontz Strangers i. ii. 220 The crust of snow glimmered with a scintillant, reflected light.

2002 A. Davies Frog King 176 The glass falls..until it shatters into scintillant dust on the sidewalk.

1764 R. A. S. F. Amourous Guardian v. 94 It's [sc. the mind's] latent, not-to-be-hidden, scintillant qualities, will involuntarily unfold themselves to the admiration of the learned.

1794 H. L. Piozzi Brit. Synonymy I. 400 Hudibras too, of all books perhaps most dazzling with scintillant brightness.

1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. viii. 249 His scintillant wit.

1880 J. Ruskin Notes on Prout & Hunt 9 Genius..scintillant enough to be made more vivid by contraction.

1908 Yale Lit. Mag. June 405 The scintillant conversation was hushed.

1927 Harper's Mag. Oct. 528 Through this first biography of the great German in forty years, there walks a scintillant figure.

1990 W. Styron Darkness Visible iii. 35 Just a few of these fallen artists, all modern, make up a sad but scintillant roll call.

1956 Supplemento al Nuovo Cimento 4 1255 After the introduction of the gas discharge counters, the method of scintillation counting was considered almost exclusively of historical interest, until the situation was reversed with the discovery of transparent scintillants.

1963 Physics Lett. 6 118/2 (caption) Counters 1–6 were scintillation detectors and..all were of plastic scintillant coupled to RCA 6810A phototubes.

1989 Nature 14 Sept. 167/1 Tritium-based assays require the use of liquid scintillant, which is flammable.

2010 M. Kono in P. M. Conn Constitutive Activity in Receptors & Other Proteins: B xii. 220 An additional vial is filled with 10 mL of scintillant, into which 10 μL of the reaction mixture is pipetted.

1887 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) 16 Apr. The Star of Bethlehem..is scintillantly brilliant and beautiful.

1928 A. L. Fleming Dwellers in Arctic Night 151 Flashes of light from the Aurora Borealis move scintillantly in the sky.

1995 Brandon (Manitoba) Sun 13 Nov. 4/5 The depth of that hostility to Rabin is caught scintillantly by the Jerusalem Report's story.