fulgent

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A white brooch of [1]silvered bronze or of[1] white silver incrusted with burnished gold over his fair white breast, as if it were a full-fulgent lantern that eyes of men could not behold [LL.fo.79a.]

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  1. adjective Shining brilliantly; radiant: "tower searchlights . . . as fulgent as half a billion candles” (Nicholas Proffitt).

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  1. Middle English, from Latin fulgēns, fulgent-, present participle of fulgēre, to flash, shine; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Spanish Portuguese Italian fulgente, from L. fulgen (t-) s, present participle of fulgere, flash, lighten, gleam, glitter (cf. fulgor, lightning: see fulgor, foulder) ; allied to flagrare, burn, fiamma (for *flagma), flame, Greek φλ/εγειυ, burn, shine, Sanskritbhrāj, shine, Anglo-Saxon blāc, shining, pale, English bleak, etc.: see flame, flagrant, bleak, phlox, phlegm, etc.
 

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