irradiative, a.
(ɪˈreɪdɪətɪv)
[f. L. irradiāt-, ppl. stem of irradiāre to irradiate: see -ative.]
Of which the property or tendency is to irradiate; illuminative.
| a 1834 Coleridge Lit. Rem. (1839) IV. 433 The reason, as the irradiative power, and the representative of the infinite, judges the understanding as the faculty of the finite. 1858 Carlyle Fredk. Gt. x. ii. (1872) III. 233 Of another Correspondence, beautifully irradiative for the young heart, we must say almost nothing. 1864 Ibid. xiii. ix. V. 92 Radiant, and irradiative, like paths of the gods. |