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形容詞

glitterant (comparative more glitterant, superlative most glitterant)

1. (rare, poetic, archaic) Synonym of glittery
   • 1610, G[iles] Fletcher, Christs Victorie, and Triumph in Heauen, and Earth, Ouer, and After Death, Cambridge: […] C. Legge, page 42:

     Therefore aboue the rest Ambition sat: / His Court with glitterant pearle was all enwall’d, / And round about the wall in chaires of State, / And most maiestique splendor, wear enstall’d / A hundred Kings, whose temples wear impal’d / In goulden diadems, set here, and thear / With diamounds, and gemmed euery whear, / And of their golden virges none disceptred wear.

   • 1679, Samuel Woodford, A Paraphrase upon the Canticles, and Some Select Hymns of the New and Old Testament with Other Occasional Compositions in English Verse, London: […] J.D. for John Baker […] and Henry Brome, page 156:

     The Tomb nor Marble was, nor glitterant Brass, / No weighty Pile, but Bank of Turfy Grass, / Which he himself cast up, and all around, / With Winter Roses strewd the sacred Ground.

   • 1720, J[ohn] Bulkeley, The Last-Day. A Poem, in XII. Books., London: […] J. Peele, […]; R. King, […]; C. Rivington, […]; and W. Chetwood, […], pages 143, 245, and 388:

     Lucent Nymphs / Gay circling round the glitterant Concaves ſhine. […] Kings / In Purple ſumptuous cloath’d, with Shields of Gold, / Rode rapid on impetuous Courſers, proud / With gaudy Trappings, in th’ etherial Sky / Toſſing their Fronts, and ſhaking Glitterant Gems: […] The Floor / Was glitterant Gold, but yielding to the Sight / Tranſparent, Cryſtal-like, where bloomy Flow’rs / Seem’d to expand their Beauties, ſoftest Shapes / Portrait’ring lovely.

   • 1895, J. E. F. J., “Mary Beautiful”, in Niagara Index, volume 28, Niagara University, N.Y., page 82:

     In many forms, for thou art pluripresent, / Thou charmest men, in foambell and in flower: / In star and moon, in cresset and in crescent, / In purpurissate warblers of the bower, / And in the glitterant gems of summer’s shower: […]