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lucent, a.|ˈl(j)uːsənt|
Also 5 erron. lucyant.
[ad. L. lūcent-em, pres. pple. of lūcēre to shine.]
1. Shining, bright, luminous.
a1500in Q. Eliz. Acad. (1869) p. xix, Afferik, Sumtyme namyt the land lucyant in the partis of Orient. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. I. 203 Thair steill helmes, and bureall basnetis brycht, Like lucent lantrynis caist ane aureat lycht. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 25 Cause the patient to sit in a verye lucent and lightsome place. 1616B. Jonson Epigr. i. lxxvi. 8, I meant the dog-star should not brighter rise Nor lend like influence from his lucent seat. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 589 The Sun's lucent Orbe. 1800Phil. Trans. XC. 172 Two drams of soda phosphorata and two ounces of water, mixed with herring-light, formed a very lucent fluid. 1853Ruskin Stones Ven. II. vi. §8. 156 Ledges of porphyry sloping under lucent sand. 1894D. C. Murray Making of Novelist 48 The roofs and spires..were outlined against a lucent belt of sky.
b. transf. and fig.
1639G. Daniel Ecclus. i. 30 How much resplendent She! How lucent in all flesh! 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. i. ii. (1872) 6 The Volume on Clothes, read and again read, was in several points becoming lucid and lucent. 1858― Fredk. Gt. x. vii. II. 664 Algarotti..a man beautifully lucent in society.
2. Translucent; lucid, clear.
1820Keats Eve St. Agnes xxx, Lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon. 1865Merivale Rom. Emp. VIII. lxiv. 126 Remains have been detected, at the bottom of the lucent Nemi, of a wooden ship or raft.
Hence ˈlucently adv.
1826Examiner 323/2 His sea-waves flow lucently. |