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Definition of Fulgurate
1. v. i. To flash as lightning.
Definition of Fulgurate
1. Verb. To flash or emit emit flashes like lightning. ¹
2. Verb. (medicine) To cauterize with electricity; to engage in electrofulgeration or to electrocauterize. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fulgurate
1. [v -RATED, -RATING, -RATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fulgurate
Literary usage of Fulgurate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Philosophical principles of universal chemistry by Georg Ernst Stahl, Peter Shaw (1730)
"... begin to fulgurate, boil up, and fly about ; but now growing clear, the mafs
is to be taken ... the matter will foon begin to fulgurate with a violent ..."
2. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... bell-mouthed. flash, vi blaze (contextual), burst (as 9. spreading; spec,
funnel-shaped, in- "out," "into flame," etc.), fulgurate (liter- ..."
3. Walt Whitman: His Life and Work by Bliss Perry (1906)
"... fulgurate an original modern style, to be followed & expanded by future writers.
His theory is that our times exhibit the advent of two especially new ..."
4. Urology: Diseases of the Urinary Organs, Diseases of the Male Genital Organs by Edward Loughborough Keyes (1917)
"... by rather roughly passing ureter catheters up and down these whenever I had
occasion to fulgurate a bladder papilloma lying near the ureter orifice; ..."
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