a. and adv. [f. SUN sb. + -LIKE.]
A. adj. Like or resembling the sun, or that of the sun; esp. very bright or resplendent.
1596. Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., III. ii. 79. No extraordinarie Gaze, Such as is bent on Sunne-like Maiestie.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, XXII. 273. His shield cast a Sun-like radiance.
1642. H. More, Song of Soul, II. iii. III. liii. Double Sunlike motion.
1715. Cheyne, Philos. Princ., I. 27. These Sun-like Bodies in the Centers of the several Vortices.
1820. Shelley, Witch Atl., lxiv. And she saw princes couched under the glow Of sunlike gems.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., II. vii. 260. If the light of an electric lamp be caused to form a clear sunlike disk upon a white screen.
1873. Proctor, Expanse of Heaven, 156. That these giant planets are still in the active and sunlike state necessary … for the expulsion of comets.
B. adv. Like or in the manner of the sun.
1819. Shelley, Cenci, V. iii. 32. That eternal honour which should live Sunlike, above the reek of mortal fame.
1832–5. Willis, From the Apennines, 15. Sun-like thou hast power to give Life to the earth.
