Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To emit flashes of lightning.
- intransitive verb To emit (light) in flashes.
- intransitive verb Medicine To destroy (abnormal tissue, for example) by electric current.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To flash as lightning: as, fulgurating clouds.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb rare To flash as lightning.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To flash or emit emit flashes like
lightning . - verb medicine To
cauterize with electricity; to carry outelectrofulguration or toelectrocauterize .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin fulgurāre, fulgurāt-, from fulgur, lightning; see bhel- in Indo-European roots.]
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Latin fulgur ("lightning")
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Examples
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rolig commented on the word fulgurate
Writing about a new kind of language in poetry that is at "variance" with "what normally goes for things and words," Christopher Middleton writes:
"The variance may be slight, but if it is true, if it fulgurates with truth, then a new sensibility has entered the evolutionary dynamic, rising up, under unthinkable pressure, from the depths."
"Introduction," in Bolshevism in Art (Manchester, UK: Carcanet New Press, 1978), p. 14.
December 1, 2007
knitandpurl commented on the word fulgurate
"But the Great Report won't be composed in a study; it will come out of the jungle, breaking cover like some colourful, fantastic beast, a species never seen before, a brand-new genus, flashing, sparkling—fulgurating—high above the tree-line, there for all to see."
Satin Island by Tom McCarthy, p 62 of the Knopf hardcover edition
July 6, 2015