单词 | fulgurate |
释义 | fulguratev. 1. intransitive. To emit vivid flashes of light; to sparkle brightly. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > emit beams (of a luminary) [verb (intransitive)] > flash lightning laita1225 lightena1398 levina1400 flush-flash1582 fulgurate1677 flash1791 fork1807 streak1849 lightning1861 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [verb (intransitive)] > lighten > flash flush-flash1582 lighten1611 fulgurate1677 flash1791 1677 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 12 867 [It] doth now and then fulgurate, and sometimes also raise it self as 'twere into waves of light. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica ii. iii. 179 As soon would we have believed that two Diamonds could Fulgurate. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters ii. 101 It does not flagrate or fulgurate, as nitre does. 1835 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 342 It is lucky for him that old Parr is not alive. How his wig would have bristled! his pipe fulgurated! 1838 B. von Arnim Diary of Child 272 How beauteous wast thou then, how grand and noble, how dark fulgurated thine eye in the stary glance! 1993 Quondam et Futurus 3 45 Andreas takes dried fish to wash in one of the fountains, which fulgurates like lightning. 2010 J. Axelrad Repeat until Rich xix. 91 From the pyramid's apex 42.3 billion candlepower's worth of white light shines, glozes, fulgurates, burns. 2. transitive. Surgery. To destroy (tissue) by means of an electrical current; cf. fulguration n. 3. Occasionally also intransitive: to perform fulguration. ΚΠ 1908 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 8 Aug. 541/2 Disseminated nodules of recurring mammary carcinoma are fulgurated each for five or ten minutes. 1949 Surg., Gynecol. & Obstetr. 88 Internat. Abstr. Surg. 226/1 Before it is decided to fulgurate rather than to remove the lower sigmoid and rectum, the presence of cancer should be excluded. 1987 Amer. Heart Jrnl. 113 1397 ECA [= electrode catheter ablation] may be used to fulgurate atrial tissue. 2006 M. Killingback Colorectal Surg. xvi. 36/1 There were many small polyps..which were fulgurated. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1677 |
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