irradiated

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adjective

Emitted outwards from a centre like rays.

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Less commonScrabble 12

Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of irradiate
adjectiveirradiated (comparative more irradiated, superlative most irradiated)

comparative more irradiated · superlative most irradiated

  1. Emitted outwards from a centre like rays.
  2. governmentHaving rays; radiant.

    [...] in her dexter hand a pair of scales or, and in her sinister a touchstone sable, her head irradiated.

    1915, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, The Book of Public Arms, London : T.C. & E.C. Jack, page 326
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    Per Fess, Or, and Argent, a Rose irradiated Gules, therefrom issuant two Griphons' heads addorsed Sable. William Barlow.

    1829, Stephen Hyde Cassan, Lives of the bishops of Bath and Wells, page 65

    A Lion of England imperially crowned, between three roses gules in chief, and as many argent in base, barbed, seeded, and irradiated or […]

    1893, John Edwin Cussans, Handbook of Heraldry, page 277

    [...] a naked child seized by a bear passant sable semee d'estoiles or, on a chief argent three roses gules irradiated.

    1897, William Kirkpatrick Riland Bedford, The Blazon of Episcopacy … of England and Wales, page 187

    Azure, on a cross quarterly pierced or, four chevrons gules, with an honourable augmentation, a chief argent, thereon a rose gules, irradiated gold, within a wreath of oak proper.

    1899, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families, page 878

    Quarterly : 1st and 4th, Sable, a fesse wavy between two estoiles irradiated argent, Drake; 2nd, Gules, on a bend or, a baton azure, on a chief the arms of[…]

    1902, Joseph Jackson Howard, Visitation of England and Wales, page 1
  3. Having been exposed to radiation (as for example by imaging, food-safety sterilization, or a nuclear blast).

    Antonyms: unirradiated

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveHaving been exposed to radiation (as for example by imaging, food-safety sterilization, or a nuclear blast).

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