Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Formed like the sun.

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  • adjective rare Like the sun in form, appearance, or nature; resembling the sun.

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  • adjective Like the sun in appearance or nature.

Etymologies

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Latin sol sun + -form.

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Examples

  • The transcendent intellectual and moral superiorities of this "Euclid of holiness," as Emerson calls him, with his "soliform eye and his boniform soul," -- the two quaint adjectives being from the mint of Cudworth, -- are fully dilated upon in the addition to the original article called

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • Theuth and Thamus; and the visions of Hades and the Fates -- fables which have imprinted themselves in the human memory like the signs of the zodiac; his soliform eye and his boniform soul; his doctrine of assimilation; his doctrine of reminiscence; his clear vision of the laws of return, or reaction, which secure instant justice throughout the universe, instanced everywhere, but specially in the doctrine,

    Representative Men Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842

  • Fates, — fables which have imprinted themselves in the human memory like the signs of the zodiac; his soliform eye and his boniform soul; 16 his doctrine of assimilation; his doctrine of reminiscence; his clear vision of the laws of return, or reaction, which secure instant justice throughout the universe, instanced everywhere, but specially in the doctrine, “what comes from God to us, returns from us to

    Representative Men 2006

  • “Euclid of holiness,” as Emerson calls him, with his “soliform eye and his boniform soul,” ” the two quaint adjectives being from the mint of Cudworth, ” are fully dilated upon in the addition to the original article called “Plato: New Readings.”

    Ralph Waldo Emerson Holmes, Oliver W 1891

  • Never could the eye have beheld the sun, had not its own essence been soliform, "(i.e. pre - configured to light by a similarity of essence with that of light)" neither can a soul not beautiful attain to an intuition of beauty. "

    Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

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  • Sun-like. (Luciferous Logolepsy)

    May 16, 2008