Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of buccinids, the typical species of which (French carica) has reddish or brownish streaks suggesting lightning. It is typical of the subfamily Fulgurinæ.
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But first, about that name: According to von Bismarck, ‘Image Fulgurator’ comes from the Latin for ‘lightning’ (fulgur) and means ‘Flash Thrower’.
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But first, about that name: According to von Bismarck, ‘Image Fulgurator’ comes from the Latin for ‘lightning’ (fulgur) and means ‘Flash Thrower’.
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Called fulgurites from the Latin fulgur for thunderbolt these shafts of "solid lightning"
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Non fero fulgur oculorum tuorum, is the language of every subject's heart, struck with the awful aspect of a resolute and magnanimous prince.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II. 1634-1716 1823
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