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单词 rutilant
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rutilantadj.

Brit. /ˈruːtᵻlənt/, /ˈruːtl̩(ə)nt/, /ˈruːtᵻln̩t/, U.S. /ˈrudələnt/
Forms: late Middle English rutilaunt, 1500s rutilante, 1500s rutuland (Scottish), 1500s– rutilant.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin rutilant-, rutilāns.
Etymology: < classical Latin rutilant-, rutilāns of a warm or glowing red, use as adjective of present participle of rutilāre (see rutilate v.). Compare Italian (now literary) rutilante (14th cent.).With the form rutuland compare -and suffix1.
literary or technical.
Glowing, shining, gleaming, glittering, with either a reddish or golden light. Also figurative.In quot. 1868 used participially with object.
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the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [adjective] > glowing
burningc1000
glowingc1000
flaming?a1400
rutilanta1460
glenta1529
steaminga1542
ardent1603
flaring1633
glowy1670
aflame1680
coalish1686
flushing1728
incandescent1867
smouldering1898
a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) 236 (MED) In his book seith of the bee Virgile, Too kyndis are, a gentil and a vile; The gentil is smal, rutilaunt, glad-chered.
1496 J. Alcock Mons Perfeccionis (de Worde) sig. eiii Lykned to the rose rutilaunt and the whyte lelly.
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xxxii. sig. l.vv This rutilant gemme and specious floure.
1542 T. Becon Christmas Bankette sig. E.vij O repentaunce more rutilante than golde.
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 36 The lordly sonne, the most rutilant planet of the seuen.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xix. 808 The florid and rutilant part in the coagulated Blood.
a1706 J. Evelyn Sylva (1776) 385 This cheerful green and Rutilant berries.
a1721 D. Hamilton Treat. Miliary Fever (1737) iii. 71 We commonly find a rutilant or florid Blood to flow from an open'd Vein.
1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. I. iii. 175 The Abate's guardian eye—Scintillant, rutilant, fraternal fire.
1884 G. Moore Mummer's Wife (1892) 285 Show-rooms..rutilant with gas and electric light.
1917 A. Huxley Let. 30 Sept. (1969) 135 Behemoth His eyes are little rutilant stones Sunk in black basalt.
1944 S. Putnam tr. E. da Cunha Rebellion in Backlands i. §4. 35 Diminutive-leafed opuntias,..bordered with rutilant flowers.
1954 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 July 425/4 There are certain magical elements constantly working against the proof-corrector—a being less rutilant, but not less vulnerable, than Tchaikovsky's Prince.
1956 K. Watson Source 46 Rutilant the trail in space Of some recurrent meteor.
1990 A. D. Foster Cyber Way (1993) 272 The chief engineer emerged from the service bay, cradling a rutilant cylinder of metallic glass.
2005 P. F. Hamilton Judas Unchained xviii. 896 The energy environment around the gigantic orb was diabolical, with electrical, magnetic and gravatonic emissions pulsing up from the rutilant interior to create a maelstrom of particles and radiation above the outer lattice sphere.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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