a. Now rare. [ad. L. *lūciform-is (repr. Gr. αὐγοειδής), f. lūc(i)-, lūx light: see -FORM.] Having the character of light, luminous: applied spec. to the ‘vehicle’ of the soul (αὐγοειδὲς ὄχημα) imagined by the Neo-Platonists; occas. to the spiritual body of the Resurrection.
1668. H. More, Div. Dial., Schol. (1713), 560. It may well be questioned, whether the Pythagoreans held a distinct Notion of this kind of luciform Body.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. v. 788. These Ancients say, that there is another Heavenly Body, always conjoyned with the Soul and Eternal, which they call Luciform and Star-like.
1710. R. Ward, Life H. More, 39. What the Platonists call the Luciform Vehicle of the Soul.
1862. Ellicott, On 1 Thess. iv. 17. The glorified and luciform body will be caught up in the … clouds.
[1881. Shorthouse, J. Inglesant, I. xvii. 313. To keep in order this luciform vehicle of the soul, as the Platonists call it.]
