irradiated

English

the griffin (supporter) in the arms of Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council is irradiated.

Verb

irradiated

simple past and past participle of irradiate

Adjective

irradiated (comparative more irradiated, superlative most irradiated)

Emitted outwards from a centre like rays.
(heraldry) Having rays; radiant.
- 1829, Stephen Hyde Cassan, Lives of the bishops of Bath and Wells, page 65:
  Per Fess, Or, and Argent, a Rose irradiated Gules, therefrom issuant two Griphons' heads addorsed Sable. William Barlow.
- 1893, John Edwin Cussans, Handbook of Heraldry, page 277:
  A Lion of England imperially crowned, between three roses gules in chief, and as many argent in base, barbed, seeded, and irradiated or […]
- 1897, William Kirkpatrick Riland Bedford, The Blazon of Episcopacy [...] of England and Wales, page 187:
  [...] a naked child seized by a bear passant sable semee d'estoiles or, on a chief argent three roses gules irradiated.
- 1899, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families, page 878:
  Azure, on a cross quarterly pierced or, four chevrons gules, with an honourable augmentation, a chief argent, thereon a rose gules, irradiated gold, within a wreath of oak proper.
- 1902, Joseph Jackson Howard, Visitation of England and Wales, page 1:
  Quarterly : 1st and 4th, Sable, a fesse wavy between two estoiles irradiated argent, Drake; 2nd, Gules, on a bend or, a baton azure, on a chief the arms of […]
- 1915, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, The Book of Public Arms, London : T.C. & E.C. Jack, page 326:
  [...] in her dexter hand a pair of scales or, and in her sinister a touchstone sable, her head irradiated.
- 2020 April 20, Susan Morris, Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019, eBook Partnership, →ISBN, page 2780:
  Crest — Rising from the top of a lighthouse argent irradiated or a martlet azure.
Having been exposed to radiation (as for example by imaging, food-safety sterilization, or a nuclear blast).
Antonym: unirradiated

Related terms

nonirradiating (adj)