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Webster 1913 Edition

Radiate

Ra′di-ate

(rā′dĭ-āt)
,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Radiated
(rā′dĭ-āˊtĕd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Radiating
.]
[L.
radiatus
, p. p. of
radiare
to furnish with spokes or rays, to radiate, fr.
radius
ray. See
Radius
,
Ray
a divergent line.]
1.
To emit rays; to be radiant; to shine.
Virtues shine more clear
In them [kings], and
radiate
like the sun at noon.
Howell.
2.
To proceed in direct lines from a point or surface; to issue in rays, as light or heat.
Light
radiates
from luminous bodies directly to our eyes.
Locke.

Ra′di-ate

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To emit or send out in direct lines from a point or points;
as, to
radiate
heat
.
2.
To enlighten; to illuminate; to shed light or brightness on; to irradiate.
[R.]

Ra′di-ate

(rā′dĭ-ā̍t)
,
Adj.
[L.
radiatus
, p. p.]
1.
Having rays or parts diverging from a center; radiated;
as, a
radiate
crystal
.
2.
(Bot.)
Having in a capitulum large ray florets which are unlike the disk florets, as in the aster, daisy, etc.
3.
(Zool.)
Belonging to the Radiata.

Ra′di-ate

,
Noun.
(Zool.)
One of the Radiata.

Webster 1828 Edition

Radiate

RA'DIATE

,
Verb.
I.
[L. radio. See Ray.]
1.
To issue in rays, as light; to dart, as beams of brightness; to shine.
Light radiates from luminous bodies directly to our eyes.
2.
To issue and proceed in direct lines from a point.

RA'DIATE

,
Verb.
T.
To enlighten; to illuminate; to shed light or brightness on. [Usually irradiate.]

RA'DIATE

,
Adj.
In botany, a rayed or radiate corol or flower, is a compound flower consisting of a disk, in which the corollets or florets are tubular and regular, and of a ray, in which the florets are irregular.
Or a flower with several semiflosculous florets set round a disk in form of a radiant star.

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