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octoradiant en · ADJ

Etymology

From octo- + radiant.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, rare) Having eight rays.
    • He affixed to his breast the octoradiant star, so much larger and more lustrous than any actual star in heaven. 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
    • There you will see seated at a long narrow table some thirty men, each betopped with a halo denoting Boston, each having affixed on his breast an octoradiant star upon which is superimposed the numerals 1926 […]. 1926, Technology Review, volume 29, page 259: