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adjective

Luminous adj.

Shining; emitting or reflecting light; brilliant; bright; as, the is a luminous body; a luminous color. "Fire burneth wood, making it... luminous." "The mountains lift... their lofty and luminous heads."

Illuminated; full of light; bright; as, many candles made the room luminous. "Up the staircase moved a luminous space in the darkness."

Enlightened; intelligent; also, clear; intelligible; as, a luminous mind. " Luminous eloquence." " A luminous statement."

Luminous paint, a paint made up with some phosphorescent substance, as sulphide of calcium, which after exposure to a strong light is luminous in the dark for a time.

Synonyms: Lucid; clear; shining; perspicuous.

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Etymology of 'Luminous'

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"Luminous" Quotes from Famous Books

... smiling luminous eyes were shining. "I'll get right along up, Captain. There's liable to be things need seeing to in that mail before you pull out. You'd best come along, ...

— The Man in the Twilight • Ridgwell Cullum

... person he will see him surrounded by the luminous mist of the astral aura, flashing with all sorts of brilliant colours, and constantly changing in hue and brilliancy with every variation of the person's thoughts and feelings. He will see this aura flooded with the beautiful rose-colour of pure affection, the rich blue of devotional feeling, ...

— Clairvoyance • Charles Webster Leadbeater

... poetry that has preserved them. To their creators poetry was abundantly dispensed. To no other people have myths been as frankly transparent. To none other, save only their cousins the Persians, have fancies more luminous occurred. The Persians so polished their dreams that they entranced the world that was. Poets can do no more. The Hindus too were poets. They were children as well. Their first lisp, the first recorded stammer of Indo-European speech, is audible still in the Rig-Veda, a bundle of hymns ...

— The Lords of the Ghostland - A History of the Ideal • Edgar Saltus

... points but one—the nature of the volition of God—that is to say, the motion of the unparticled matter. You will have a distinct idea of the ultimate body by conceiving it to be entire brain. This it is not; but a conception of this nature will bring you near a comprehension of what it is. A luminous body imparts vibration to the luminiferous ether. The vibrations generate similar ones within the retina; these again communicate similar ones to the optic nerve. The nerve conveys similar ones to the brain; the brain, also, similar ones to the unparticled matter which permeates it. The motion of ...

— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 2 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe

... years—founded in her advanced widowhood the Order of the Visitation, under the direction of St. Francis de Sales—and who attained such an extraordinary degree of perfection as to be seen ascending to heaven like a luminous meteor after her ...

— The Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois • Anon.

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