Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of irradiate
comparative more irradiated · superlative most irradiated
- 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 3265 more examples
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 65A 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 187Azure, 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 878Quarterly : 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 - 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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