fulgurant, a.
(ˈfʌlgjʊərənt)
[ad. L. fulgurant-em, pr. pple. of fulgurāre to lighten, f. fulgur lightning: see -ant.]
Flashing like lightning.
| 1647 H. More Resolution Poems 175 [Though] Nature play her fiery games In this forc'd Night, with fulgurant flames. 1840 Browning Sordello v. 43 Careful Jove's face be duly fulgurant. 1868 ― Ring & Bk. vi. 1600 That erect form, flashing brow, fulgurant eye. |
Hence ˈfulgurantly adv.
| 1873 Dowden in Contemp. Rev. July 193 This eruption [in V. Hugo's Châtiments], which is meant to overwhelm the gewgaw Empire goes on fulgurantly, resoundingly, and not without scoriæ and smoke. |