a. [ad. late L. lūcific-us, f. lūc(i)-, lūx light: see -FIC.] Light-producing.
1701. Grew, Cosm. Sacra, II. ii. § 14. 38. When they [the rays] are made to Converge,… though their Lucifick motion be continu’d, yet … that equal motion, which is the Colorifick, is interrupted.
1800. Hulme, in Phil. Trans., XC. 173. The degree of illumination in these liquids must depend upon the quantity of lucific matter applied.
1825. Coleridge, Aids Refl. (1848), I. 168. The dry light … the lucific vision,… meaning thereby … reason in contradistinction from the understanding.
1876. J. Ellis, Cæsar in Egypt, 53. Lucific orbs.
