lucidadj.

Brit.

/ˈl(j)uːsɪd/, U.S.

/ˈlusəd/

Etymology: < Latin lūcidus, < lūcēre to shine. Compare French lucide.

1. Bright, shining, luminous, resplendent. Now poetic and technical. Entomology and Botany = Smooth and shining. Astronomy. Of a star: Visible to the naked eye.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > intensity of light > [adjective] > bright

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lighteOE

lightlyOE

sheenOE

torhtOE

shirea1000

steepa1000

shimmeringc1000

brightOE

strongOE

clear1297

fair?a1300

bright-shininga1387

merrya1393

skirea1400

lucident14..

shimc1400

staringc1400

luculentc1420

splendent1474

illuminousc1485

lucentc1500

bloominga1522

sheer1565

prelucent1568

faculent1575

splendant1578

lucid1591

neat1591

shine1596

translucent1596

well-lighted1606

nitid1615

lucible1623

dilucid1653

translucid1657

hard1660

the world > plants > appearance of plant > defined by texture > [adjective] > smooth

smooth1688

lucid1790

nitidous1882

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adjective] > to naked eye

naked eye1866

macroscopic1872

macroscopical1876

megascopic1879

lucid1893

1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 1259 With his azure wings he cleav'd The liquid clowdes, and lucid firmament.

1654 R. Vilvain Theoremata Theologica ii. 45 The Air is not a lucid body like the Sun.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 240 Over his lucid Armes A militarie Vest of purple flowd.

1693 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. viii. 5 There are great multitudes of lucid Starrs even beyond the reach of the best Telescopes.

1790 Coll. Voy. round World V. x. 1743 Supposed to be an animal which contributes to that lucid appearance often observed at sea in the night.

1797 Encycl. Brit. III. 443/2 [Botany] A Surface is..Lucid, as if it were illuminated.

1800 Hulme in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 90 180 Another lucid dead glow-worm was put into warm water, at 114°.

1833 Ld. Tennyson Poems 60 Her lucid neck Shone ivorylike.

1845 H. N. Humphreys & J. O. Westwood Brit. Moths II. 221 Aphelosetia lucidella (the lucid).

1847 W. E. Steele Handbk. Field Bot. Gloss. 16 Lucid, with a bright and shining surface.

1880 J. Thomson City of Dreadful Night 3 The lucid morning's fragrant breath.

1893 R. S. Ball Story of Sun 333 Beta Lyræ..is among the coolest of the lucid stars.

figurative.a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) iv. vii. 105 The Intellectual world, being..made all Lucid, Intellectual, and shining with the Sun-beams of eternall Truth.1742 T. Barnard Char. Lady E. Hastings 39 To bring them into the lucid Path of Vertue and Religion.

2. Translucent, pellucid, clear.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > transparency or translucence > [adjective]

shireOE

brightOE

through-shineOE

cleanc1040

cleara1400

transparent1413

crystalc1425

crystallinec1425

crystal-clear?a1439

pure1481

perspicuatea1500

beryl1508

through-shining1526

diaphane1561

thorough-seeable1562

pellucid1563

sheer1565

translucent1568

liquid1590

tralucent?1592

perspicuous1599

thorough light1601

diaphanic1614

diaphanous1614

perspicable1615

translucid1615

diaphanal1616

lucid1620

diaphaned1626

transpicuous1638

perlucid1647

dioptrical1760

dioptric1801

unconcealing1804

see-through1851

pellucent1886

pool-clear1924

1620 T. Venner Via Recta Introd. 4 The lucide and cleare substance of it [sc. air].

1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. B Thus they stood by that good lucid spring Of living blisse.

1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. vi. 102 The lucid wave a spacious bason fills.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. iii. 1 The sun, emerging from the lucid waves.

1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. x. 155 How singularly pure and lucid the atmosphere becomes.

1882 F. W. H. Myers Renewal of Youth 314 Let many a heat distil Her lucid essence from the insurgent ill.

3. lucid interval n. (also in early use in medieval Latin plural form lucida intervalla)

a. A period of temporary sanity occurring between attacks of lunacy. (So French intervalle lucide.) †Formerly also, in wider use, an interval of apparent health between the attacks or periods of a disease. [The Latin phrase ‘non est compos mentis, sed gaudet lucidis intervallis’ is common in English legal documents from the 13th to the 15th cent.; so also in the medieval Latin commentators on Justinian's Institutes. For the etymological notion presumably underlying the expression, compare 3c.]

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > [noun] > temporary sanity

lucid interval1603

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > bout or attack of > space between

lucid interval1603

interval1634

1603 C. Heydon Def. Iudiciall Astrol. xxi. 425 Sometimes shee [the moon] graunteth to them [lunatics] Lucida interualla.

1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes v. ii. 98 in Wks. II They are almost mad! But I forgiue their Lucida Interualla.

1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 84 I had a shrewd disease hung lately upon me... After some gentle slumbers, and unusuall dreames..I had a lucid intervall.

1656 R. Vines Treat. Lords-supper (1677) 213 A mad man may have lucid intervals.

1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. v. 259 As for that pain which is lasting, it is not onely gentle, but hath many lucid intervalls.

1686 J. Dunton Lett. from New Eng. (1867) 23 I had between whiles those lucid intervals [in sea-sickness].

1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 25 If a lunatic hath lucid intervals of understanding, he shall answer for what he does in those intervals.

1839 I. Ray Med. Jurispr. Insanity xiv. 298 It was decided by the court, Sir Willian Wynne, that she had a lucid interval, while making the will.

a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. xxv. 294 James lingered three days longer. He was occasionally sensible during a few minutes, and, during one of these lucid intervals [etc.].

b. transferred and figurative. A period of rest or calm in the midst of tumult or confusion; an interval during which there is a reversion to a normal, reasonable, or desirable condition.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > quietness or tranquillity > [noun] > period of

fallow?1523

lucid interval1581

still1615

oasis1814

1581 W. Allen Apol. Two Eng. Colleges iii. f. 22 Which [Arianisme] though it troubled the world some hundred yeres together, yet it..had lucida interualla, gaue seasons of calme and rest to holy Bishops.

1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 7 Which [dissensions] although they had had..Lucide-interuals and happy Pauses; yet did they euer hang ouer the Kingdome.

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. ii. 34 The devill heaped afflictions upon him, allowing him [sc. Job] no lucid intervalls.

1682 J. Dryden Mac Flecknoe 4 Some Beams of Wit on other Souls may Fall, Strike through, and make a Lucid Interval.

1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. xxv. 185 Neither was his whole time devoted to the riotous extravagancies of youth. He enjoyed many lucid intervals.

1822 R. G. Wallace 15 Years in India 194 It is quite impossible to transact business with a chief, except in that lucid interval between..one debauch, and..another.

1900 19th Cent. Sept. 386 Italy is just passing through one of these lucid intervals.

c. In the etymological sense: An interval of sunshine in a storm.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > fine weather > [noun] > short spell of > in a storm

lithec1300

lucid interval1656

lull1815

1656 A. Tuckney Good Day Improved 8 Some short lucida intervalla, as the sun in a rainy day, looking out now and then a little.

1749 Capt. Standige in Naval Chron. (1800) 3 207 It being then day-light, and a lucid interval between showers of snow.

4. Marked by clearness of reasoning, expression, or arrangement; easily intelligible.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > clarity > [adjective]

plaina1398

cleara1400

luminousc1450

lightsome1532

perspiculous1565

perspicuous1570

luculent1597

dilucida1640

limpid1649

dilucidate1651

elucidatea1670

dilucidated1759

lucid1786

pellucid1831

chiselleda1862

transpicuous1877

1786 J. Courtenay Poet. Rev. Samuel Johnson 24 And lucid vigour mark'd the general style.

1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 10 182 Arranged in that lucid order which is so necessary to assist the student.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxiv. 234 Mrs. Curdle had sat listening to this lucid explanation.

1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 7 His expression was incomparably lucid.

1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) 103 The sermon was long but lucid.

5. Of persons: Clear in intellect; rational, sane.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > [adjective]

in (one's right) witc1000

wittyc1000

wisec1290

well-tempered1340

reasonablec1400

safe1402

perfectc1440

well in (also of) one's witsa1450

right in one's geara1500

well-advised1532

sensed1549

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well-advised1585

rational1598

solid1606

in one's (right) senses1613

formala1616

of (in) disposing mind or memory1628

compos mentis1631

righta1638

well-hinged1649

well-balanced1652

spacked1673

clear-headed1709

sane1721

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unmaddened1797

pas si bête1840

lucid1843

unfantastical1862

clothed and in one's right mind1873

right-minded1876

ungiddy1904

clear1950

1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. i. 59 Any lucid simple-hearted soul like him.

1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel II. xiv. 304 Two apparently lucid people.

1887 Times 11 Aug. 5/2 I believe you are insane on that one point. On everything else you are lucid and bright.

6. With agent-noun: That performs the action implied in a lucid manner.

ΚΠ

1879 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times II. xxix. 372 There never was a more lucid and candid reasoner.

Draft additions December 2003

lucid dream n. a dream in which the sleeper is aware that he or she is dreaming and is sometimes able to control or influence the course of the dream.

ΚΠ

1913 F. van Eeden in Proc. Soc. Psychical Res. 1912–13 26 447 In a lucid dream the sensation of having a body..is perfectly distinct.

1968 Listener 15 Aug. 217/3 The lucid dream..is an experience of having a dream and being at the same time fully conscious that it is a dream.

2000 M. Winkelman Shamanism iii. 141 The experiences of lucid dreams are subject to deliberate cultivation, as is evidenced in the reports of yogic traditions.

Draft additions December 2003

lucid dreamer n. a person having or able to have a lucid dream.

ΚΠ

1963 B. Frechtman tr. J.-P. Sartre St. Genet iv. 462 This lucid dreamer..retains within himself..the masochist who tortures himself by proxy... Our Lady is what certain psychiatrists call a ‘controlled waking dream’.

2000 O. Flanagan Dreaming Souls iv. 126 One would predict that lucid dreamers have more frontal cortical activity during dreams than nonlucid dreamers.

Draft additions December 2003

lucid dreaming n. the state or process of having a lucid dream.

ΚΠ

1972 Science 16 June 1210/1 I think it is probable that state-specific sciences can be developed for such SoC's [= states of consciousness] as auto-hypnosis, meditative states, lucid dreaming, [etc.]... In all of these SoC's. volition seems to be retained.

2000 R. E. Tanzi & A. B. Parson Decoding Darkness 168 Many a night I went so far as to employ lucid dreaming to look for the gene.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	lucid
释义	lucidadj. Brit. /ˈl(j)uːsɪd/, U.S. /ˈlusəd/ Etymology: < Latin lūcidus, < lūcēre to shine. Compare French lucide. 1. Bright, shining, luminous, resplendent. Now poetic and technical. Entomology and Botany = Smooth and shining. Astronomy. Of a star: Visible to the naked eye. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > intensity of light > [adjective] > bright shininga900 lighteOE lightlyOE sheenOE torhtOE shirea1000 steepa1000 shimmeringc1000 brightOE strongOE clear1297 fair?a1300 bright-shininga1387 merrya1393 skirea1400 lucident14.. shimc1400 staringc1400 luculentc1420 splendent1474 illuminousc1485 lucentc1500 bloominga1522 sheer1565 prelucent1568 faculent1575 splendant1578 lucid1591 neat1591 shine1596 translucent1596 well-lighted1606 nitid1615 lucible1623 dilucid1653 translucid1657 hard1660 the world > plants > appearance of plant > defined by texture > [adjective] > smooth smooth1688 lucid1790 nitidous1882 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adjective] > to naked eye naked eye1866 macroscopic1872 macroscopical1876 megascopic1879 lucid1893 1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 1259 With his azure wings he cleav'd The liquid clowdes, and lucid firmament. 1654 R. Vilvain Theoremata Theologica ii. 45 The Air is not a lucid body like the Sun. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 240 Over his lucid Armes A militarie Vest of purple flowd. View more context for this quotation 1693 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. viii. 5 There are great multitudes of lucid Starrs even beyond the reach of the best Telescopes. 1790 Coll. Voy. round World V. x. 1743 Supposed to be an animal which contributes to that lucid appearance often observed at sea in the night. 1797 Encycl. Brit. III. 443/2 [Botany] A Surface is..Lucid, as if it were illuminated. 1800 Hulme in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 90 180 Another lucid dead glow-worm was put into warm water, at 114°. 1833 Ld. Tennyson Poems 60 Her lucid neck Shone ivorylike. 1845 H. N. Humphreys & J. O. Westwood Brit. Moths II. 221 Aphelosetia lucidella (the lucid). 1847 W. E. Steele Handbk. Field Bot. Gloss. 16 Lucid, with a bright and shining surface. 1880 J. Thomson City of Dreadful Night 3 The lucid morning's fragrant breath. 1893 R. S. Ball Story of Sun 333 Beta Lyræ..is among the coolest of the lucid stars. figurative.a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) iv. vii. 105 The Intellectual world, being..made all Lucid, Intellectual, and shining with the Sun-beams of eternall Truth.1742 T. Barnard Char. Lady E. Hastings 39 To bring them into the lucid Path of Vertue and Religion. 2. Translucent, pellucid, clear. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > transparency or translucence > [adjective] shireOE brightOE through-shineOE cleanc1040 cleara1400 transparent1413 crystalc1425 crystallinec1425 crystal-clear?a1439 pure1481 perspicuatea1500 beryl1508 through-shining1526 diaphane1561 thorough-seeable1562 pellucid1563 sheer1565 translucent1568 liquid1590 tralucent?1592 perspicuous1599 thorough light1601 diaphanic1614 diaphanous1614 perspicable1615 translucid1615 diaphanal1616 lucid1620 diaphaned1626 transpicuous1638 perlucid1647 dioptrical1760 dioptric1801 unconcealing1804 see-through1851 pellucent1886 pool-clear1924 1620 T. Venner Via Recta Introd. 4 The lucide and cleare substance of it [sc. air]. 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. B Thus they stood by that good lucid spring Of living blisse. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. vi. 102 The lucid wave a spacious bason fills. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. iii. 1 The sun, emerging from the lucid waves. 1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. x. 155 How singularly pure and lucid the atmosphere becomes. 1882 F. W. H. Myers Renewal of Youth 314 Let many a heat distil Her lucid essence from the insurgent ill. 3. lucid interval n. (also in early use in medieval Latin plural form lucida intervalla) a. A period of temporary sanity occurring between attacks of lunacy. (So French intervalle lucide.) †Formerly also, in wider use, an interval of apparent health between the attacks or periods of a disease. [The Latin phrase ‘non est compos mentis, sed gaudet lucidis intervallis’ is common in English legal documents from the 13th to the 15th cent.; so also in the medieval Latin commentators on Justinian's Institutes. For the etymological notion presumably underlying the expression, compare 3c.] ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > [noun] > temporary sanity lucid interval1603 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > bout or attack of > space between lucid interval1603 interval1634 1603 C. Heydon Def. Iudiciall Astrol. xxi. 425 Sometimes shee [the moon] graunteth to them [lunatics] Lucida interualla. 1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes v. ii. 98 in Wks. II They are almost mad! But I forgiue their Lucida Interualla. 1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 84 I had a shrewd disease hung lately upon me... After some gentle slumbers, and unusuall dreames..I had a lucid intervall. 1656 R. Vines Treat. Lords-supper (1677) 213 A mad man may have lucid intervals. 1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. v. 259 As for that pain which is lasting, it is not onely gentle, but hath many lucid intervalls. 1686 J. Dunton Lett. from New Eng. (1867) 23 I had between whiles those lucid intervals [in sea-sickness]. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 25 If a lunatic hath lucid intervals of understanding, he shall answer for what he does in those intervals. 1839 I. Ray Med. Jurispr. Insanity xiv. 298 It was decided by the court, Sir Willian Wynne, that she had a lucid interval, while making the will. a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. xxv. 294 James lingered three days longer. He was occasionally sensible during a few minutes, and, during one of these lucid intervals [etc.]. b. transferred and figurative. A period of rest or calm in the midst of tumult or confusion; an interval during which there is a reversion to a normal, reasonable, or desirable condition. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > quietness or tranquillity > [noun] > period of fallow?1523 lucid interval1581 still1615 oasis1814 1581 W. Allen Apol. Two Eng. Colleges iii. f. 22 Which [Arianisme] though it troubled the world some hundred yeres together, yet it..had lucida interualla, gaue seasons of calme and rest to holy Bishops. 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 7 Which [dissensions] although they had had..Lucide-interuals and happy Pauses; yet did they euer hang ouer the Kingdome. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. ii. 34 The devill heaped afflictions upon him, allowing him [sc. Job] no lucid intervalls. 1682 J. Dryden Mac Flecknoe 4 Some Beams of Wit on other Souls may Fall, Strike through, and make a Lucid Interval. 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. xxv. 185 Neither was his whole time devoted to the riotous extravagancies of youth. He enjoyed many lucid intervals. 1822 R. G. Wallace 15 Years in India 194 It is quite impossible to transact business with a chief, except in that lucid interval between..one debauch, and..another. 1900 19th Cent. Sept. 386 Italy is just passing through one of these lucid intervals. c. In the etymological sense: An interval of sunshine in a storm. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > fine weather > [noun] > short spell of > in a storm lithec1300 lucid interval1656 lull1815 1656 A. Tuckney Good Day Improved 8 Some short lucida intervalla, as the sun in a rainy day, looking out now and then a little. 1749 Capt. Standige in Naval Chron. (1800) 3 207 It being then day-light, and a lucid interval between showers of snow. 4. Marked by clearness of reasoning, expression, or arrangement; easily intelligible. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > clarity > [adjective] plaina1398 cleara1400 luminousc1450 lightsome1532 perspiculous1565 perspicuous1570 luculent1597 dilucida1640 limpid1649 dilucidate1651 elucidatea1670 dilucidated1759 lucid1786 pellucid1831 chiselleda1862 transpicuous1877 1786 J. Courtenay Poet. Rev. Samuel Johnson 24 And lucid vigour mark'd the general style. 1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 10 182 Arranged in that lucid order which is so necessary to assist the student. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxiv. 234 Mrs. Curdle had sat listening to this lucid explanation. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 7 His expression was incomparably lucid. 1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) 103 The sermon was long but lucid. 5. Of persons: Clear in intellect; rational, sane. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > [adjective] in (one's right) witc1000 wittyc1000 wisec1290 well-tempered1340 reasonablec1400 safe1402 perfectc1440 well in (also of) one's witsa1450 right in one's geara1500 well-advised1532 sensed1549 unmad1570 well-advised1585 rational1598 solid1606 in one's (right) senses1613 formala1616 of (in) disposing mind or memory1628 compos mentis1631 righta1638 well-hinged1649 well-balanced1652 spacked1673 clear-headed1709 sane1721 unfantastic1794 unmaddened1797 pas si bête1840 lucid1843 unfantastical1862 clothed and in one's right mind1873 right-minded1876 ungiddy1904 clear1950 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. i. 59 Any lucid simple-hearted soul like him. 1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel II. xiv. 304 Two apparently lucid people. 1887 Times 11 Aug. 5/2 I believe you are insane on that one point. On everything else you are lucid and bright. 6. With agent-noun: That performs the action implied in a lucid manner. ΚΠ 1879 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times II. xxix. 372 There never was a more lucid and candid reasoner. Draft additions December 2003 lucid dream n. a dream in which the sleeper is aware that he or she is dreaming and is sometimes able to control or influence the course of the dream. ΚΠ 1913 F. van Eeden in Proc. Soc. Psychical Res. 1912–13 26 447 In a lucid dream the sensation of having a body..is perfectly distinct. 1968 Listener 15 Aug. 217/3 The lucid dream..is an experience of having a dream and being at the same time fully conscious that it is a dream. 2000 M. Winkelman Shamanism iii. 141 The experiences of lucid dreams are subject to deliberate cultivation, as is evidenced in the reports of yogic traditions. Draft additions December 2003 lucid dreamer n. a person having or able to have a lucid dream. ΚΠ 1963 B. Frechtman tr. J.-P. Sartre St. Genet iv. 462 This lucid dreamer..retains within himself..the masochist who tortures himself by proxy... Our Lady is what certain psychiatrists call a ‘controlled waking dream’. 2000 O. Flanagan Dreaming Souls iv. 126 One would predict that lucid dreamers have more frontal cortical activity during dreams than nonlucid dreamers. Draft additions December 2003 lucid dreaming n. the state or process of having a lucid dream. ΚΠ 1972 Science 16 June 1210/1 I think it is probable that state-specific sciences can be developed for such SoC's [= states of consciousness] as auto-hypnosis, meditative states, lucid dreaming, [etc.]... In all of these SoC's. volition seems to be retained. 2000 R. E. Tanzi & A. B. Parson Decoding Darkness 168 Many a night I went so far as to employ lucid dreaming to look for the gene. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1581
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