luciferous

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Lord Cromer was never tired of quoting what, in Bacon's phrase, he would call "luciferous" stories, to illustrate the folly of the administrator who thrusts physical improvements or the devices of European enlightenment upon the unwilling Oriental solely because they are good per se_, or economical, or will make the governed richer or cleverer or happier.

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  1. Giving light; affording light or means of discovery. Boyle, Works, IV. 394. [Rare.]
  2. In entomology, having phosphorescent organs: applied to insects which emit light, as the glow-worm.
  3. [capitalized] Of or pertaining to Lucifer or Satan; Luciferian; Satanic. [Rare.] This Luciferous and gluttonous heart. J. Bradford, Letters (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 32.

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  1. from Latin lucifer, light-bringing (see Lucifer), + -ous.
 

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