transluce

present singular third person transluces · participle present translucing · participle past transluced · past transluced

1. uncommonTo shine (light) through, and thus make (the thing which is shined through) translucent.

   In his refusal to allow tropes to transluce into meaning, Donne locates spiritual significance not in the disembodied and abstract sphere but in the body itself.

   2014, Kimberly Johnson, Made Flesh: Sacrament and Poetics in Post-Reformation England, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 32

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   […] for her stainless soul transluced the fairest skin, making simplicity a grace, filling her large blue eyes with gentle rays; and her arch laughter with innocent mirth.

   1904, John P. Lonargan, Cwan and Genevieve: A Tale of Love and Romance in the Days of Roderick, Last Monarch of All Ireland, page 35

   By translucing the paper when the negative is otherwise finished the grain can be reduced to a minimum. The following translucing media may be mentioned: (1) Vaseline, (2) paraffin waxin paraffin, (3) castor oil and alcohol, (4) white wax ...

   1915, The Photographic Journal of America: The Oldest Photography Magazine in America, page 111

   The less transparent consciousness is, the less translucent will the world itself be. In other words, when consciousness is very opaque, it is not able to transluce the world. Now to transluce the world means to make it understandable.

   1970, Robert S. Hartman, Robert. E. Carter, "Dialogue on Intrinsic Value" (1970), pages 122-23, quoted in 2014, Rem B. Edwards, John W. Davis, Forms of Value and Valuation: Theory and Application, Wipf and Stock Publishers, page 119

2. rareTo be translucent or transparent, to allow light to shine through.

   holy are the doors that admit holy are the rivets that bind holy are the windows that transluce

   2006, Alexander Levering Kern, Becoming Fire: Spiritual Writing from Rising Generations, Andover Newton Publications, page 5

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   At the end of the dance, when “matter turned to spirit,” the two cliffs once again came together to form an arch but both rock structures were now lighted to transluce and transform into stained glass.

   2007, Nicanor G. Tiongson, Salvador F. Bernal: Designing the Stage

   Cook the bacon in a pan, add the onion and cook until they start to transluce, then add the garlic and cook for another minute.

   2018, Mattis Lundqvist, 25 Low-Carbohydrate Recipes for the Slow Cooker: Delicious low carb recipes for all slow cooker fans - part 1: Measurements in grams, BookRix, →ISBN