Lexic.us

Definition of Coruscation

1. Noun. The occurrence of a small flash or spark.

2. Noun. A sudden or striking display of brilliance. "Coruscations of great wit"

Definition of Coruscation

1. n. A sudden flash or play of light.

Definition of Coruscation

1. Noun. A sudden display of brilliance; a flashing of light, a sparkle. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Coruscation

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Coruscation

1. Rarely used psychiatric term for a subjective sensation of a flash of light before the eyes. Origin: L. Corusco, to flash (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coruscation

cortisone cortisone reductase cortisones cortodoxone coruler corulers corundom corundum corundums coruscant

coruscate coruscated coruscates coruscating coruscatingly coruscation (current term) coruscations corvee corvees corven

corves corvesor corvesors corvet corveted corvets corvette corvetted corvettes corvetto

Literary usage of Coruscation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1847)
"... like that remarkably interesting one about the coruscation of S. James—some personal, such as, ' Oh, for a closer walk with God"—some optative, such as, ..."

2. The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus by Paracelsus (1894)
"In whichever direction the coruscation extends, in that direction also ... Then, too, it must be known that the coruscation is threefold in colour, as, ..."

3. Synonyms Discriminated: A Dictionary of Synonymous Words in the English by Charles John Smith (1893)
"coruscation. Л FLASH is a sudden brilliancy instantaneously withdrawn or disappearing. A FI.ARS (of which the etym. is uncertain) is a dazzling, ..."

4. Synthetica: Being Meditations Epistemological and Ontological by Simon Somerville Laurie (1906)
"My present consciousness may be merely a mental coruscation which flashes out and dies; but a coruscation which continues in it a past coruscation must be a ..."

5. Modern Judaism: Or, A Brief Account of the Opinions, Traditions, Rites by John Allen (1830)
"The law, ' however, clearly demonstrates, that they are in an ' error; that it is not a coruscation from the spheres, ' but that, on the contrary, ..."

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