[tirrigh-heralds] Lightning Spear discussion

[Britt]

On 6/3/07, Caitrina Sable Loat <Caitrina at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 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?

You need to document it being used in exactly the same way AND that
period order names used that adjective.  So something 'moving like
lightning' won't cut it, but 'thy lightning sword did smite thine
enemies' would suffice for adjective legitimacy.  Though you'd still
need to document the pattern for order names, as well.  Note that the
Rising Star return didn't care whether rising star was a period
adjective-noun combination, it addressed that pattern as an order
name.

Does someone want to contact Lady Ursula for help on this, or shall I?
 She's good with order names.

- Teceangl