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Casting a bright light; radiant; brilliant; resplendent; shining; splendid; as, refulgent beams. -- Re*ful"gent*ly, adv. So conspicuous and refulgent a truth. Boyle.

Reflecting light; shining; glittering; glistening; bright; luminous; splendid. Gorgeous banners to the sun expand Their streaming volumes of relucent gold. Glover.

aissance. The Renascence . . . which in art, in literature, and in physics, produced such splendid fruits. M. Arnold.

u would have sold your king to slaughter, His princes and his peers to servitude. Shak. A splendid servitude; . . . for he that rises up early, and goeSouth.

Splendid; illustrious; brilliant; distinguished; conspicious; as, a shining example of charity.

Solemn; grand; stately; splendid; magnificent. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Splendor-bearing; splendid. Bale (1538). "A splendiferous woman." Haliburton. [Now used humorously.]

Splendid. Drayton.

Involving large outlay or expense; costly; expensive; hence, luxurious; splendid; magnificient; as, a sumptuous house or table; sumptuous apparel. We are too magnificient and sumptuous in our tables and attendance. Atterbury. She spoke, and turned her sumptuous head, with eyes Of shining expectation fixed on mine. Tenn…

Fine; splendid; excellent; also, extravagant; excessive. [Obs. or Slang] B. Jonson.

obstructed way open to the public; a public road; hence, a frequented street. A large and splendid thoroughfare. Motley.

Fig.: Highest; elevated; splendid. "The consciences of topgallant sparks." L'Estrange. Topgallant breeze, a breeze in which the topgallant sails may properly be carried.