Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Clothed in radiance; bright.

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Examples

  • Comus, the song "Sweet Echo," the descriptive speech of the Spirit, and the magnificent eulogy of the "sun-clad power of chastity," would be the most beautiful things where all is beautiful, if the unapproachable "Sabrina fair" did not come later, and were not sustained before and after, for nearly two hundred lines of pure nectar.

    A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

  • Creeps up the gray, funereal sky wearily, how wearily, or morning comes "with gracious breath of sunlight," it is a part of glorious Nature, his star-crowned Queen, his sun-clad goddess.

    Literary Hearthstones of Dixie La Salle Corbell Pickett 1889

  • The woman, sun-clad, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars upon her head (chap, xii.), is beyond all question the ancient Jewish church; the child which is born to the woman is the Christian church; the great red dragon that seeks to devour the child is the Satanic power, the

    Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People Washington Gladden 1877

  • But his "gay rhetoric" is futile against the "sun-clad power of chastity"; and he is driven off the scene by the two brothers, who are led and instructed by the Spirit disguised as the shepherd Thyrsis.

    Milton's Comus John Milton 1641

  • With 'sun-clad' compare 'the sacred rays of chastity,' l.

    Milton's Comus John Milton 1641

  • Speaking from the sun-clad beaches of Goa (where she is shooting for Raj Kumar Santoshi's Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani along side Ranbir Kapoor), the gorgeous Katrina Kaif pours her heart out and talks about everything from her next release Yuvvraaj to her future projects, from romancing Salman Khan

    Top Stories - Google News 2008

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