coruscate

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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.

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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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  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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/kəˈrəskeɪt/
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