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Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. third-person singular simple present indicative form of coruscate.
Etymologies
- Latin coruscāre, coruscāt-, to flash.
Examples
“Taruskin coruscates Johnson: “To cast aesthetic preferences as moral choices at the dawn of the twenty-first century is an obscenity.””
“Not only is there a cultural baton passed from Babylon to Albion in the form of dub poetry, but the whole collection coruscates with the energy of resistance to injustice on all fronts.”
“The roar of traffic coruscates at best when wind is westerly”
“As in, the light coruscates over the surface in a watery chiaroscuro ... or you could use the two year old approach and just point and say, "ooooh, pretty!”
“A poet may begin by thinking about a tortoise, or a locomotive, or a piece of sirloin, and in one whisk of Time his mind has shot up to the conceptions of Eternity, Transportation, and Nourishment: his cortex coruscates and suppurates with abstract thought; words assail him in hordes, and in a flash he is down among them, overborne and fighting for his life.”
“This is what the genius does, in whose hands a given topic coruscates and grows.”
Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals
“Robson reviews Michael Wood's book on Yeats and Laurie Penny coruscates the baby boomer generation.”
“You walk on corpses, Beauty, undismayed, and Horror coruscates among your gems;”
“My rule is always to play off my wit on friends; it coruscates more brilliantly when we know a man's foibles. ”
The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764
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