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Definition of Fulgurous
1. Adjective. Amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning. "Adventures related...in a style both vivid and fulgurous"
Definition of Fulgurous
1. Adjective. Resembling a lightning flash; fulgurant. ¹
2. Adjective. Full of lightning. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fulgurous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fulgurous
Literary usage of Fulgurous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1898)
"... the angry similitude had shot, slightly fulgurous and consolatory, athwart
the gloom of one's mood ? * That will account for Luc. ..."
2. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1865)
"... before getting up to one's Works and Correspondences, the angry similitude
had shot, slightly fulgurous and consolatory, athwart the gloom of one's mood ..."
3. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"... and Correspondences, the angry similitude had shot, slightly fulgurous and
consolatory, athwart the gloom of one's mood ? '• That will account for Luc. ..."
4. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1917)
"... have lent itself to criticism with a sort of pre-established harmony that
could never have belonged to the merely plain, or to the mainly " fulgurous. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... with fulgurous brilliancy, and then be succeeded by pages of very second- rate
declamation or argument. It was urged against hint abo by the party of ..."
6. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"... Of Rome, fair quarry where those eagles crowd Whose fulgurous vans about the
world had blown Triumphant storm and seeds of polity ; Of Venice, ..."
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