Meanings
comparative more soliform · superlative most soliform
- Like the sun in appearance or nature.
For as light , and sight , or the seeing faculty , may both of them rightly be said to be soliform things, or of kin to the sun , but neither of them to be the sun itself
1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC
Origin
- Latinsol“sun”
- Englishsoliform
From Latin sol (“sun”) + -iform.
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