ppl. a. [f. as prec. + LIT ppl. a.] Lighted or illumined by the sun.
1822. Shelley, Triumph of Life, 80. Like the young moon—When on the sunlit limits of the night Her white shell trembles amid crimson air.
1840. Wilberforce, Sp. Missions (1874), 84. Under the sunlit canopy of heaven.
1890. Conan Doyle, White Company, xxxvi. Like the shadow of clouds upon a sunlit meadow.
