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fulgent, a.|ˈfʌldʒənt|
[ad. L. fulgent-em, pr. pple. of fulgēre to shine: see -ent.]
Shining brightly; brilliant, glittering, resplendent. Now poet. or rhetorical.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 13 Asches or sonde, whiche semenge as thynges impure and wontenge lyȝhte be wonte to yelde pure materes and fulgent. a1500York Myst., Inholders (1885) 514 Hayle! fulgent Phebus. 1615Crooke Body of Man 563 It doth lesse hinder the fulgent brightnes of the christaline. 1636Heywood Loves Mistress 2nd Prol. Wks. 1874 V. 88 Liquid Gold Of fulgent beautie. 1667Milton P.L. x. 449 At last, as from a Cloud, his fulgent head And shape Starr-bright appeer'd. 1770Glover Leonidas iv. 518 Other Thracians..fulgent morions wore, With horns of bulls in imitating brass Curv'd o'er the crested ridge. 1807Wordsw. Gipsies 16 Then issued Vesper from the fulgent west. 1835Blackw. Mag. XXXVIII. 401 Brighter..than the stream Which in Pirene shed its fulgent gleam.
fig.1879G. Meredith Egoist II. ii. 32 The studious mind..throws off acids and crusty particles in the piling of the years, until it is fulgent by clarity.
b. Her. (See quot.)
1828–40Berry Encycl. Her. I, Fulgent, having rays, as a star fulgent.
Hence ˈfulgently adv., ˈfulgentness.
1727Bailey vol. II, Fulgentness. 1880G. Meredith Trag. Com. (1881) 36 Her hero faced about and stood up, looking at her fulgently. |