luculent
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin lūculentus, from lūx (“light”).
Adjective
editluculent (comparative more luculent, superlative most luculent)
- (now rare) Shining, brilliant.
- (obsolete) Of language, speeches etc: lucid, brilliantly clear.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, I.iv.1:
- Cleombrotus Ambraciotes persuaded I know not how many hundreds of his auditors, by a luculent oration he made of the miseries of this, and happiness of that other life, to precipitate themselves […].