luciferous

(luːˈsɪfərəs)

adj

rare bringing or giving light

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lu•cif•er•ous

(luˈsɪf ər əs)

adj.

1. bringing or providing light.

2. providing insight or enlightenment.

[1640–50; < Latin lūcifer]

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Luciferously

References in periodicals archive ?

Luck, M.: "Aquinas's miracles and the luciferous defence: The problem of the evil/miracle ratio" en Sophia 48, 2009.

TIEMPO Y ANIQUILACION: CUESTIONES EN TORNO AL LEGADO ARISTOTELICO EN LA VISION TOMISTA DE LA TEMPORALIDAD

Now that I have checked its definition, I am happy to include myself, with Messrs McKeegan and Sinclair, as "luciferous".

LETTERS: your views

downe in good order & Method all Luciferous experiments & not be

Foreign Bodies: Travel, Empire and the Early Royal Society of London. Part II. The Land of Experimental Knowledge

But scrub with bucketfuls of elbow grease and good, brown soap, still a dreadful phosphorated mould is always growing back, coating everything in a luciferous sheen.