radiantlyadv.

?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth i. f. 69^v The light and glorie of the progenitours shyneth more radiantly by virtu of their progeny.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 197/1 A certayne vessell..made of the pretious stone Onichinus, so radiantly wrought, that in it appeared y^e lyuely corne growing, and mens images walkyng [etc.].

1635 J. Reynolds Triumphs Gods Revenge (new ed.) iv. xvii. 330 The bright and relucent Sun-beames of her excellent perfections and vertues in her selfe, and of her constant affection to him, will for ever most radiantly resplend and shine to all the world.

1694 T. D'Urfey Comical Hist. Don Quixote: Pt. 2nd ii. ii. 24 Dulcinea smil'd most radiantly.

1731 E. Thomas Pylades & Corinna 69 He dresses in Print, and his Features are fine, Which by help of Cosmetics most radiantly shine.

1773 Reg. Folly xii. 124 The rich Widow Tissue, Lord Spitalfield's Issue, whose charms, like the sun, shone most radiantly bright.

1819 P. B. Shelley Let. 23–24 Jan. (1964) II. 74 They are of marble radiantly white.

1877 Honourable Miss Ferrard III. i. 28 Helena was looking radiantly lovely.

1920 F. S. Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise ii. iv. 265 The first fact that flashed radiantly on his comprehension was the great impersonality of sacrifice.

1953 P. Jones Birthday Honours in Plays of Year IX. 567 You should be allowed to revolve radiantly at some cocktail party..a dry martini in one hand and an itsy-bitsy little thing on a stick in the other.

2005 New Yorker 5 Dec. 30/3 A sale of Judaica on Nov. 30 (featuring such items as a radiantly illustrated mahzor for Rosh Hashanah made in France circa 1300) reveals the glory of ancient traditions.

?1795 A. Walker Anal. Course Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. (ed. 9) vii. 56 Electrified feathers spread out their threads radiently [earlier eds. from 1766 radically; later eds. radiantly].

1799 A. Walker Syst. Familiar Philos. ii. 45 The filings will stick radiantly to the poles in every direction.

1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy II. 409 A porous lava,..mingled with laminæ of mica, radiantly disposed.

1863 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 37 51 The ribs have been squeezed convergently in the hollow of the contortion, and expanded radiantly from the prominent points.

1915 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 42 581 Apothecia common,..margins radiantly ciliate.

1948 R. W. Shoemaker Radiant Heating i. 11 A radiantly heated room.

1972 Ecology 53 913/1 The northern unit must dissipate radiantly to space all the heat it absorbs from the sun..plus the heat it receives from the southern unit.

1991 Chem. Engineer 13 June 17/1 The catalytic tubular reforming of natural gas with steam and carbon dioxide in radiantly-heated, direct-fired furnaces is used worldwide.