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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To emit flashes of lightning.
  2. v. To emit (light) in flashes.
  3. v. Medicine To destroy (abnormal tissue, for example) by electric current.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To flash as lightning: as, fulgurating clouds.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To flash or emit emit flashes like lightning.
  2. v. medicine To cauterize with electricity; to carry out electrofulguration or to electrocauterize.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. rare To flash as lightning.

Etymologies

  1. Latin fulgur ("lightning") (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin fulgurāre, fulgurāt-, from fulgur, lightning; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • rolig 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. Nov 30, 2007

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