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Fulgurate

Fulgurate \Ful"gu*rate\, v. i. [L. fulguratus, p. p. of fulgurare to flash, fr. fulgur lightning, fr. fulgere to shine. See Fulgent.] To flash as lightning. [R.]

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vb. 1 To flash or emit flashes like lightning. 2 (context medicine English) To cauterize with electricity; to carry out electrofulguration or to electrocauterize.

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It is terrified, like Delphos at the fulgurating realities of the vision.

If we except the class of preƫminent saints of whom the names illumine history, and consider only the usual run of 'saints,' the shopkeeping church-members and ordinary youthful or middle-aged recipients of instantaneous conversion, whether at revivals or in the spontaneous course of methodistic growth, you will probably agree that no splendor worthy of a wholly supernatural creature fulgurates from them, or sets them apart from the mortals who have never experienced that favor.