Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of lightening, or flashing with light.
- noun In assaying, the sudden brightening of a melted globule of gold or silver in the cupel of the assayer, when the last film of vitreous lead or copper leaves its surface.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act of lightening.
- noun (Assaying) The sudden brightening of a fused globule of gold or silver, when the last film of the oxide of lead or copper leaves its surface; -- also called
blick .
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- noun The quality of flashing like
lightning . - noun medicine
Cauterization with electricity;electrocautery . - noun chemistry, obsolete The sudden
brightening of a fusedglobule ofgold orsilver , when the lastfilm of theoxide oflead orcopper leaves its surface; also calledblick .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Shruthi spelled "fulguration" and Henry spelled "portcullis" before the caller reread the new elimination rules.
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"I love looking at the sultry fulguration of these skies," I said, just to try out the sound.
Beard 2010
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My eyes ranged far over a large space lit by a violent fulguration.
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She felt a jolting crash; then there was a searing fulguration, the smell of wood ash, and finally the cool bite of saltwater.
The Veiled Dragon Denning, Troy 1996
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Due to its location electro-fulguration of the tumour through the rectum was carried out in July
Chapter 9 1991
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This double character of events in History and Nature is dimly descried in what we specially call 'nature', but comes more fully into view in the sphere of human history, where each step is at once a deed and a discovery, a contribution to the constitution of the world of fact and a fulguration of the light within illuminating facts as the condition of its own inexhaustible continuance.
Progress and History Francis Sydney Marvin 1903
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My eyes ranged far over a large space lit by a violent fulguration.
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English Jules Verne 1866
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The distinction between fulguration and emanation is this: in the latter case the procession is historically defined and complete; in the former case it is momentaneous.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863
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Designed for electrodessication, fulguration, and coagulation without cutting.
DOTmed.com 2010
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Quintero RA, Hume RF, Johnson MP, Smith C, Cotton DB, Romero R, Evans MI: Percutaneous fetal cystoscopy, and endoscopic fulguration of posterior urethral valves.
Obstructive Uropathy, Fetal Intervention for Obstructive Uropathy 2010
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