Luculent

Origin

From Latin lūculentus (""), from lūx ("light").

Full definition of luculent

Adjective

1. (now rare) Shining, brilliant.
2. (obsolete) Of language, speeches etc: lucid, brilliantly clear.
• 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.iv.1:Cleombrotus Ambraciotes persuaded I know not how many hundreds of his auditors, by a 'luculent oration he made of the miseries of this, and happiness of that other life, to precipitate themselves ....