Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To emit flashes of lightning.
- v. To emit (light) in flashes.
- v. Medicine To destroy (abnormal tissue, for example) by electric current.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To flash as lightning: as, fulgurating clouds.
Wiktionary
- v. To flash or emit emit flashes like lightning.
- v. medicine To cauterize with electricity; to carry out electrofulguration or to electrocauterize.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. rare To flash as lightning.
Etymologies
- Latin fulgur ("lightning") (Wiktionary)
- Latin fulgurāre, fulgurāt-, from fulgur, lightning; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“There are three types of recollection toughened past Mp3 players namely, fulgurate thought, removable or embedded glitter memory and the hard drive.”
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Muse's tacet ,to learn
Music brings silence's to raging thoughts and temperament , calm, as it is our object of definite purpose.
tacet, cadence, tempo, treble clef, penultimate, lexicon, origin, orchestra, kantele, magus, eros, coalesce and 248 more...
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phrontistery - f
from phrontistery.info
fustilarian, fusillation, fustian, futurology, fusiform, futurition, fusee, fuscous, fusain, furunculoid, futtock, furibund and 418 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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Quacksalvers et al. Nostrum
Bring forth the cathartic illumination on malignant,maniacal,medical,menage a trios and more egotists stymie
culpability, piousfraud, capacitous, rhabdomyolysis, scapula, idiosyncrasy, quiescent, malignant, nefarious, sociological, sociopath, pathogen and 202 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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Words I Learned on FreeRice.com
A place for me to keep all these weird words, whether I guessed them correctly or not.
pennoncel, serval, tautological, redact, ganef, candent, shaitan, bifid, osteal, ensiform, helve, ecdysis and 100 more...
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Coruscate, Coruscate, Little Star
twinkle, sparkle, glimmer, flicker, scintillate, incandesce, fulgurate, radiate, beam, glow, flame, flare and 18 more...
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good words if used sparingly
Words that I don't want to forget, but that require caution in their use.
velleity, fealty, peripetia, bellwether, commonweal, imponderable, solipsism, soubrette, timbre, effulgent, placate, deplorable and 56 more...
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my words
inveterate, iniquitous, nefarious, quiescent, capricious, sanctimonious, exogenous, endogenous, salient, aberrant, amenable, eviscerate and 24 more...
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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