fulguraladj.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Fulgural, belonging to lightning.

1713 in T. Creech tr. Lucretius Of Nature of Things (new ed.) II. vi. 656 The Prognostick Doctrine of Lightning was, no doubt, contain'd in their Fulgural Books, and the Priest, or Interpreter of Lightning, was call'd Fulgurator.

1745 D. De Coetlogon Universal Hist. Arts & Sci. I. 329/2 The Fulgural Books, Libri fulgurales, were written touching Thunder and Lightning, and the Interpretation thereof.

1813 T. Busby tr. Lucretius Nature of Things vi. Comm. iv The Romans, it is well known, derived from the Tuscans the system of their fulgural superstition.

1813 T. Busby tr. Lucretius Nature of Things v. Comm. v Their skill in fulgural divination.

1891 B. S. Colyer-Fergusson tr. P. D. Chantepie de la Saussaye Man. Sci. Relig. xvi. 139 This fulgural science [Ger. Fulguralwissenschaft] was considered of Etruscan origin.

1917 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 21 192 In fulgural divination, in which the Romans depended on the Etruscans, the four original divisions of the heaven were subdivided each in to four parts.

1977 F. E. Brenk In Mist Apparelled ix. 207 Plutarch relates that fulgural portents and oddities in the flight of birds were reported.

2003 S. W. Rasmussen Public Portents in Republican Rome ii. 44 An exhaustive discussion of fulgural typology and interpretations, as well as a the distinction between the Roman and Etruscan schools of fulgural science.