Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Rainbow-colored; iridescent.
Wiktionary
- adj. Exhibiting the prismatic colours; iridescent.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Exhibiting the prismatic colors; irised; iridescent.
Etymologies
- See iris. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“His head, laden with an Assyrian mitre, was bent, and he was watching the gold plate on his breast; it was covered with fatidical stones, and the flame mirrored in it formed irisated lights.”
“One evening, when a shower had surprised them, the sun, showing behind the downpour, lit up the whole rain cloud, and upon their heads there fell a spray of glowing water, irisated with pink and azure.”
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
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