Also 7 erradiation. [f. prec.: see -ATION.]
1. The action or process of eradiating or shining forth; the emission of rays of light or heat.
1633. T. Adams, Exp. 2 Peter iii. 18. 1567. The first eradiation of this light, like some flash of lightening, breakes the stone in the heart.
1686. Goad, Celest. Bodies, II. xii. 331. Neither must we Imagine his Erradiation to be Idle.
1794. R. J. Sulivan, View Nat., I. 139. But, whether it comes directly from the sun, by successive emissions or eradiations, [etc.].
1865. F. P. B. Martin, MS. Lect. Geol. The attraction of the sun increases the Eradiation of the Earth.
b. transf. and fig.
a. 1630. Hales, Gold. Rem. (1673), I. 288. He first supposeth some Eradiation and Emanation of Spirit … to be directed from our bodies to the bloud dropped from it.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 252. They will not understand what manner of making or production the world had—to wit, by way of effulgency or eradiation from the Deity.
2. concr.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 744. As if they were a kind of Eternal Effulgency, Emanation or Eradiation from an Eternal Sun.
1691–8. Norris, Pract. Disc. (1711), III. 172. He is in his proportion … an Effulgency, an Eradiation of God’s Glory.
1855. Milman, Lat. Chr. (1864), I. I. i. 51. All the rest acknowledged some Deity, some efflux, eradiation, emanation of the primal Godhead.
