coruscate

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  1. intransitive verb To give forth flashes of light; sparkle and glitter: diamonds coruscating in the candlelight.
  2. intransitive verb To exhibit sparkling virtuosity: a flutist whose music coruscated throughout the concert hall.

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  • Given a dinner-table, with light and color, and somebody occasionally to throw the ball, his spirits would rise and coruscate astonishingly. —  Authors and Friends
  • Even the fixed stars at first waver and coruscate, and require long seasons for their consummation and final settlement. —  Charles Lamb
  • He started to ask if it was a genuine antique, but the piles of junk had begun to waver and shimmer and coruscate with light. —  Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves
  • Urth turns her aged face to the sun and he beams upon her snows; they scintillate and coruscate until each little point of ice hanging from the swelling sides of the towers seems the Claw of the Conciliator, the most precious of gems. —  The Shadow of the Torturer
  • Even the fixed stars at first waver and coruscate, and require long seasons for their consummation and final settlement Whenever he differs with us in opinion (as he does occasionally), let us not hastily pronounce him to be wrong. —  Charles Lamb
 

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  1. Latin coruscāre, coruscāt-, to flash.

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  1. from Latin coruscatus, past participle of coruscare, move quickly, vibrate, flash, glitter.
 

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