单词 | rutilant |
释义 | rutilantadj. literary or technical. Glowing, shining, gleaming, glittering, with either a reddish or golden light. Also figurative.In quot. 1868 used participially with object. ΘΚΠ 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). < adj.a1460 |
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