Irradiate

/ɪˈɹeɪdɪət/ · adjective

Meaning

Made brilliant or bright; irradiated, illuminated..

Definitions by Sense

1. Made brilliant or bright; irradiated, illuminated.
2. (figurative) Made splendid or wonderful.
3. To send out (heat, light, or some other form of radiation) in the form of rays; to radiate.
4. To make (someone or something) bright by shining light on them or it; to brighten, to illuminate.
5. To apply radiation other than visible light to (someone or something).
6. To animate or enliven (one's mood, or soul or spirit).
7. To cause (one's face) to look beautiful, happy, or lively; to light up.
8. To decorate (a place) splendidly.

Example Sentences

There ſeek the Theban Bard, depriv'd of ſight, / VVithin, irradiate vvith prophetic light; […]

The co-existent Flame / Knew the Destroyer; it encircled him, / Roll'd up his robe, and gathered round his head, / Condensing to intenser splendour there, / His crown of glory, and his light of life, / Hovered the irradiate wreath.

When, disappearing from our hemisphere, / The world's enlightener vanishes, and day / On all sides wasteth, suddenly the sky, / Erewhile irradiate only with his beam, / Is yet again unfolded, putting forth / Innumerable lights wherein one shines.

Such vvere thy gifts, Pedmálá, ſuch thy povv'r! / For, vvhen thy smile irradiates yon blue fields, / Obſervant Indra ſends the genial ſhovv'r.

Thou cheerful light of day! […] thou ſplendid luminary of Natur! thou no longer irradiateſt my eyes or exhilarateſt my ſoul! The ſeaſons ſtill follovv each other, and year ſucceeds to year; but to me day no more returns.

Who hath watched / The midnight lightnings of the summer storm, / That, with their aweful blaze, irradiate heaven, / Then leave a blacker night?

He saw her image in the blight and blackness all around him, not irradiating but deepening the gloom.

Hail, all hail, O sun, that suscitates and circumscribes life; hail, O fountain of life and death! […] At times, a little cloud, emanation of terrestrial vapor, shadowed those vaults destined to thee alone, and thou irradiatedst it with such splendor, that it seemed the brow of innocence; but it blackened as ingratitude, and waged war against thy rays.

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