arch. [a. L. fulgor, f. fulgēre to shine.] A brilliant or flashing light; dazzling brightness, splendor.
1602. Marston, Ant. & Mel., Induction. Wks. 1856, I. 4. By the bright honour of a Millanoise, and the resplendent fulgor of this steele, I will defende the feminine to death.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., III. x. 128. Glowewormes alive, project a lustre in the darke, which fulgour notwithstanding ceaseth after death.
1665. Sir T. Herbert, Trav. (1677), 302. The young Mens habit was rich, their arms and legs fettered with voluntary chains of burnished Gold or Brass, whose fulgor they delighted in from its conformity to the Sun.
1791. W. Bartram, Carolina, 13. The fulgour and rapidity of the streams of lightning, passing from cloud to cloud, and from the clouds to the earth, exhibited a very awful scene.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., II. V. iv. There had risen … quite another variegated Glitter and nocturnal Fulgor.
1877. L. Morris, Epic Hades, II. 103.
| Then with a bound | |
| Leaped up the hot red sun above the sea, | |
| And lit the horrid fulgour of his scales, | |
| And struck upon the rock. |
fig. 1635. Heywood, Hierarch., v. 278. Those Mindes and Essences diuine By nature with Miraculous Fulgor shine.
1668. H. More, Divine Dialogues, I. xiv. (1713), 28. Hyl. … There shines from them such an intellectual fulgor, that methinks the very Glory of the Deity becomes visible through them.
1834. Fraser’s Mag., X. 699. Their influence shall enable us to make this article … glow with a fulgour not otherwise its own.
