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Webster 1913 Edition
Lucent
Lu′cent
,Adj.
[L.
lucens
, p. pr. of lucere
to shine, fr. lux
, lucis
, light.] Shining; bright; resplendent.
“ The sun’s lucent orb.” Milton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Lucent
LU'CENT
,Adj.
Shining; bright; resplendent; as the sun's lucent orb.
Definition 2024
lucent
lucent
English
Adjective
lucent (comparative more lucent, superlative most lucent)
- Emitting light; shining, luminous.
- Translucent; clear, lucid.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, pp. 9-10:
- her dilated eyes fixed with a horror-stricken fascination upon the pygmy burial-ground, in that broad, lucent expanse of the yellow moonlight which was still streaming through the illuminated gorge of the mountains into an otherwise dusky world.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, pp. 9-10: