soliform
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin sol (“sun”) + -iform.
Adjective edit
soliform (comparative more soliform, superlative most soliform)
- Like the sun in appearance or nature.
- 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
- For as light , and sight , or the seeing faculty , may both of them rightly be said to be soliform things, or of kin to the sun , but neither of them to be the sun itself
References edit
“soliform”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.