v. [f. ppl. stem of L. coruscāre to vibrate, glitter, sparkle, gleam.] intr. To give forth intermittent or vibratory flashes of light; to shine with a quivering light; to sparkle, glitter, flash.

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1705.  [see CORUSCATING].

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1808.  J. Barlow, Columb., III. 162. A sudden glare Coruscates wide.

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1846.  Hawthorne, Mosses, Mother Rigby’s Pipe, ii. The star kept coruscating.

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1883.  C. F. Holder, in Harper’s Mag., Jan., 186/2. The light was a brilliant green, coruscating from the centre of the animal in curious flashes of flame.

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  fig.  1851.  Carlyle, Sterling, II. iii. (1872), 104. Like a swift dashing meteor he came into our circle; coruscated among us, for a day or two.

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1880.  Sat. Rev., No. 1296. 262. The President will be chosen mainly for his power of coruscating.

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  b.  with cognate object.

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1852.  Hawthorne, Blithedale Rom., xxii. Coruscating continually an unnatural light.

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