Meaning of glitterant | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of glittery.

archaic, poetic, rare

Examples

“Therefore aboue the rest Ambition sat: / His Court with glitterant pearle was all enwall’d, / And round about the wall in chaires of State, / And most maiestique splendor, wear enstall’d / A hundred Kings, whose temples wear impal’d / In goulden diadems, set here, and thear / With diamounds, and gemmed euery whear, / And of their golden virges none disceptred wear.”

“The Tomb nor Marble was, nor glitterant Brass, / No weighty Pile, but Bank of Turfy Grass, / Which he himself cast up, and all around, / With Winter Roses strewd the sacred Ground.”

“Lucent Nymphs / Gay circling round the glitterant Concaves ſhine.[…]Kings / In Purple ſumptuous cloath’d, with Shields of Gold, / Rode rapid on impetuous Courſers, proud / With gaudy Trappings, in th’ etherial Sky / Toſſing their Fronts, and ſhaking Glitterant Gems:[…]The Floor / Was glitterant Gold, but yielding to the Sight / Tranſparent, Cryſtal-like, where bloomy Flow’rs / Seem’d to expand their Beauties, ſoftest Shapes / Portrait’ring lovely.”

“In many forms, for thou art pluripresent, / Thou charmest men, in foambell and in flower: / In star and moon, in cresset and in crescent, / In purpurissate warblers of the bower, / And in the glitterant gems of summer’s shower:[…]”

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