a. Also 5 erron. lucyant. [ad. L. lūcent-em, pres. pple. of lūcĕre to shine.]
1. Shining, bright, luminous.
a. 1500. in Q. Eliz. Acad. (1869), p. xix. Afferik, Sumtyme namyt the land lucyant in the partis of Orient.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot., I. 203. Thair steill helmes, and bureall basnetis brycht, Like lucent lantrynis caist ane aureat lycht.
1597. A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 25. Cause the patient to sit in a verye lucent and lightsome place.
1616. B. Jonson, Epigr., I. lxxvi. 8. I meant the dog-star should not brighter rise Nor lend like influence from his lucent seat.
1667. Milton, P. L., III. 589. The Sun’s lucent Orbe.
1800. Phil. Trans., XC. 172. Two drams of soda phosphorata and two ounces of water, mixed with herring-light, formed a very lucent fluid.
1853. Ruskin, Stones Ven., II. vi. § 8. 156. Ledges of porphyry sloping under lucent sand.
1894. D. C. Murray, Making of Novelist, 48. The roofs and spires … were outlined against a lucent belt of sky.
b. transf. and fig.
1639. G. Daniel, Ecclus. i. 30. How much resplendent She! How lucent in all flesh!
1831. Carlyle, Sart. Res., I. ii. (1872), 6. The Volume on Clothes, read and again read, was in several points becoming lucid and lucent. Ibid. (1858), Fredk. Gt., X. vii. II. 664. Algarotti … a man beautifully lucent in society.
2. Translucent; lucid, clear.
1820. Keats, Eve St. Agnes, xxx. Lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon.
1865. Merivale, Rom. Emp., VIII. lxiv. 126. Remains have been detected, at the bottom of the lucent Nemi, of a wooden ship or raft.
Hence Lucently adv.
1826. Examiner, 323/2. His sea-waves flow lucently.
