Middle English Dictionary Entry
lūminǒus adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | lūminǒus adj. Also luminose. |
| Etymology | L & OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Shining, radiant; also fig.; (b) glossy, glistening.
Associated quotations
a
- a1500 Mirror Salv.(Beeleigh)p.42 : This virgine fulle of splendour and thorgh out lumynouse.
- a1500 Mirror Salv.(Beeleigh)p.162 : Joye to the modere of crist, sterne of the see lumynouse.
- a1550 *Ripley CAlch.(BodeMus 63)42b : O highe..maiestie, Whose luminouse lemes obtundith our speculatione!
b
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)1.113 : The frute of oliues is vnctuous, luminose [Trev.: ful of liȝt; L luminosus], and delicious.