octoradiant

octoradiant

English

Etymology

From octo- +‎ radiant.

Adjective

octoradiant (not comparable)

1. (rare) Having eight rays.
   • 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:

     He affixed to his breast the octoradiant star, so much larger and more lustrous than any actual star in heaven.

   • 1926, Technology Review, vol. 29, p. 259:

     There you will see seated at a long narrow table some thirty men, each betopped with a halo denoting Boston, each having affixed on his breast an octoradiant star upon which is superimposed the numerals 1926 […].