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Mar. 12, 2017
luciferous\loo-SIF-er-uh s\adjective
1. bringing or providing light.
2. providing insight or enlightenment.
QuotesAn illumination on so vast a scale could be kept up only by the
inexhaustible magazine of ether disseminated through space, and ever
ready to manifest its luciferous properties on large spheres, whose
attraction renders it sufficiently dense for the play of chemical
affinity.
-- D. Vaughan, "On the Light of Suns, Meteors, and Temporary Stars,"
Report on the Twenty-Seventh Meeting of the British Association for the
Advancement of Science, 1858
Origin of luciferousLuciferous comes from Latin lÅ«cifer âmorning
star,â literally, âlight-bringing.â It entered English in the
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