a. [ad. L. fulgid-us, f. fulgēre to shine.]
1. Flashing, glittering, shining.
1656–81. Blount, Glossogr., Fulgid, shining, glistering, bright.
1678. R. R[ussell], Geber, II. I. III. vi. 73–4. A Tincture of Redness of most exuberant Refection, and fulgid Splendor.
1715–20. Pope, Iliad, X. 547. Through the brown shade the fulgid weapons shined.
1773. Wilson, in Phil. Trans., LXIV. 16. This beauteous substance is at the surface, most fulgid.
1791. W. Bartram, Carolina, 51. The clouds broke away, the bule sky appeared, the fulgid sun-beams spread abroad their animating light, and the steady western wind resumed his peaceful reign.
1822. T. Taylor, Apuleius, XI. 261. That which most excessively dazzled my sight, was a very black robe, fulgid with a dark splendour.
1870. Emerson, Soc. & Solit., viii. 163. Demons with fulgid eyes.
2. Nat. Hist. (See quot.)
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., IV. 279. Fulgid, a bright fiery red.
Hence Fulgidity, fulgid state or condition.
1656–81. in Blount, Glossogr.
1755. in Johnson; and in mod. Dicts.
