Adjective : the luminiferous properties of a gas.    From Dictionary.com. 

However, Victorian scientists did think there was something called the luminiferous ether.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-03-01] Reference

The existence of an all-pervasive medium called the luminiferous ether was launched as a theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Forces] Reference

The koilon in which all these bubbles are formed undoubtedly represents a part, and perhaps the principal part, of what science describes as the luminiferous æther.    From Wordnik.com.  [Occult Chemistry Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements] Reference

This thing we call the luminiferous ether.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Approach to Philosophy] Reference

No such medium was known, so they invented one and named it the luminiferous ether.    From Wordnik.com.  [The God Delusion]

What if he were teaching that radio waves are propagated by means of the luminiferous ether?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daimnation!: Teaching 9/11 denial] Reference

Without that, theism has no more explanatory power than phlogiston or the luminiferous ether.    From Wordnik.com.  [Attached to Strings] Reference

One thing we are sure of, and that is the reality and substantiality of the luminiferous ether.    From Wordnik.com.  [Euclid’s Window] Reference

Christiaan Huygens was a brilliant, well-educated man–a man who also proposed the luminiferous aether.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Those Illiterates — Chaucer, Sir Walter Scott, and Ruskin:] Reference

This invisible medium was called the “luminiferous ether,” and it was assumed to permeate all space.    From Wordnik.com.  [ENTANGLED MINDS] Reference

The waves of light and of radiant heat follow each other at similar rates through the luminiferous ether.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882] Reference

Though of course the existence of phlogiston and the luminiferous ether are also empirical possibilities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behe's confusion about falsification - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The hypothesized luminiferous ether was massless, rigid, incompressible and mediated electromagnetic waves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wells: “Darwinism is Doomed” because we keep making progress - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The last hold out was the luminiferous ether which was supposed to be the stuff that vibrated in light waves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elevators, Einstein, & Etiquette] Reference

Indeed, the very "beginning" notion is a scam, like the luminiferous ether or Descartes 'ad hoc pineal gland.    From Wordnik.com.  [You can't begin yourself away from what you're already doing.] Reference

"One thing we are sure of," he commented, "and that is the reality and substantiality of the luminiferous ether.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Older Articles by Alan B Wallace] Reference

Thus stands the hypothesis of a luminiferous ether -- in what must be allowed to be a very unsatisfactory condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference

The theory of the luminiferous ether as the medium of the transmission of light is one of these pretentious bridges of words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation] Reference

“The luminiferous ether demonstrated by the effect of the relative motion of the ether in an interferometer in uniform rotation.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ervin Laszlo : EARTH, LIFE, AND MIND : THE PROMISE OF THE NEW HOLISM IN THE SCIENCES] Reference

Accordingly he dismissed as superfluous the supposed existence of a luminiferous aether, widely accepted throughout the nineteenth century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Applications of Occam's Razor in science are always to concrete, causally efficacious entities, whether land-bridges, unicorns, or the luminiferous ether.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simplicity] Reference

In order to account for this wave motion, he supposed all space to be filled with a luminiferous Aether, which would be to his light waves what air is to sound waves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aether and Gravitation] Reference

This likely refers to the creation of the luminiferous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

The luminiferous aether has definite mechanical properties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference

A luminous body imparts vibration to the luminiferous ether.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2] Reference

This likely refers to the creation of the luminiferous aether.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Lenard's experiments certainly favour the hypothesis of their being waves in the luminiferous ether.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Electricity] Reference

If we think of the modern theory of the luminiferous ether, we shall not be far from his view-point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature Mysticism] Reference

The luminiferous medium is therefore, during the passage of light through it, a receptacle of energy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science] Reference

This result gives us a clear view of the relationship of the two substances to the luminiferous aether.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference

But if the luminiferous ether is not matter, and fluid matter, too, what is the meaning of its undulations?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference

The luminiferous ether is a substance which fills all space, and surrounds the atoms and molecules of bodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873] Reference

The waters swarm with countless hosts of small luminiferous animalcules, Mammaria (of the order of Acalephae).    From Wordnik.com.  [COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] Reference

The intangible substance which pulsates and undulates to produce light, Young christened the "luminiferous ether.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three)] Reference

With all our belief of it, it will be well to keep the theory of a luminiferous aether plastic and capable of change.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference

We have to show that the properties of the electro-magnetic medium are identical with those of the luminiferous medium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science] Reference

It would be hard to say why the luminiferous ether should be relegated to the "unseen world" any more than the material atom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unseen World and Other Essays] Reference

Sir Oliver Lodge is inclined to discover in the luminiferous ether an environment in which discarnate personality could function.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Religious Cults and Movements] Reference

Why should the luminiferous ether, or any primordial medium in which it may have been generated, be regarded as in any way "spiritual"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unseen World and Other Essays] Reference