radient

English

Adjective

radient (comparative more radient, superlative most radient)

1. Obsolete form of radiant.
   • 1639, I. S., Clidamas, or The Sicilian Tale, London: […] Thomas Payne, and are to be sold by Iohn Cowper, […], pages 3–4:

     […] yet ſtill continued they gazing, extolling above meaſure the excellency of their faces, and the ſparkling luſter of their radient eyes, calling them (by overſtrain’d hyperboles) Starres, Sunnes, Angels, or indeed any thing that love-ſicke imagination fancieth, till by their continued motion their eyes were denyed the ſight of their faces; […]

   • 1792, Charlotte Smith, “Letter XII.”, in Desmond. […], volume II, London: […] G[eorge,] G[eorge,] J[ohn] and J[ames] Robinson, […], →OCLC, pages 167–168:

     When, however, the matin loving lark, or ruſſet pinions, floating amid the tiffany clouds, that variegated, in fleecy undulation, the grey-inveſted heavens, hailed with his ſoul-reviving note, the radient countenance of returning morn; […]

   • 1795, Uzal Ogden, Antidote to Deism. The Deist Unmasked; […]‎^[1], volume 1, Newark: John Woods, page 50:

     We have a Saviour, tell it out among the heathen, that all the nations of the earth may partake of the gift, whoſe radient eye brightens tentively on ſuch a ſubject as this, who are under the domination of the ſenſual affections and appetites; […]

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: radie, radies

Verb

radient

1. third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of radier

Latin

Verb

radient

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of radiō