a. [ad. L. effulgēnt-em, f. as prec.] Shining forth brilliantly; sending forth intense light; resplendent, radiant. Hence Effulgently adv.
1738. Glover, Leonidas, II. 89. Whose spacious orb collects th’ effulgent beams.
1852. Mrs. Jameson, Leg. Madonna (1857), 178. He is upborne by an effulgent cloud.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., I. § 27. 218. The fiery light of the sinking sun…. Mottled the mountains with effulgent spaces.
fig. 1744. Akenside, Pleas. Imag., I. 330. Venus … stood Effulgent on the pearly car.
1831. Brewster, Newton (1855), II. xxiv. 358. Others … resist the effulgent evidence which sustains the strongholds of our faith.
1868. J. T. Nettleship, Ess. Browning, vi. 219. Its beauty might be more effulgent by reason of the … dulness of the rest.
