[tirrigh-heralds] Lightning Spear discussion

[Caitrina Sable Loat]

Opps, I should have read all my email before replying the first time.  We
need documentation showing Lightning being used in period as an adjective.
Our Webster's  Collegiate Dictionary shows Lightning used as an adjective in
1640 - "having or moving with or as if with the speed and suddenness of
lightning".  Anyone else got anything?

Caitrina

-----Original Message-----
From: Britt [mailto:tierna.britt at gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 11:54 PM
To: Quentin Martel
Cc: Caitrina Sable Loat; collegeofheralds at tirrigh.org
Subject: Re: [tirrigh-heralds] Lightning Spear discussion

> Great points!
>
> According to
> http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lightning, lightning
> can be used as a noun, verb, or adjective. In it's adjective case, we fit
> perfectly into the Adjective + Thing pattern listed at
> http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/order/ (Adjective
> + Thing - Holy Phial, Precious Blood, Pontifical Medal).
>
> Would that work?

Maybe not.

     [Award of the Rising Star] This name is being returned for lack
of documentation of the
     construction of the order name. No documentation was provided,
and the College found
     none, that an abstract descriptive such as Rising was used to
modify a noun such as Star
     in period order names. Barring such documentation, this name must
be returned.
     [Ansteorra, Kingdom of, 09/01, R-Ansteorra]

- Teceangl