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Webster 1913 Edition
Coruscation
Corˊus-ca′tion
(k?rˊ?s-k?′sh?n)
, Noun.
[L.
coruscatio
: cf. F. coruscattion
.] 1.
A sudden flash or play of light.
A very vivid but exceeding short-lived splender, not to call [GREEK]t a little
coruscation
. Boyle.
2.
A flash of intellectual brilliancy.
Syn. – Flash; glitter; blaze; gleam; sparkle.
Webster 1828 Edition
Coruscation
CORUSCATION
, n [L.]1.
A flash; a sudden burst of light in the clouds or atmosphere.2.
The light produced by the combustion of imflammable gas in the earth.Artificial coruscations are produced by phosporus and sulphuric acid, or by sulphuric acid and iron filings.
Definition 2024
coruscation
coruscation
English
Noun
coruscation (plural coruscations)
- A sudden display of brilliance; a flashing of light, a sparkle.
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
- [I]n the dusky galleries, duskier with unwashed heads, is a strange 'coruscation,'—of impromptu billhooks.
- 2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 6,
- All of these things - the rubbed amber, the magnets, the crystal radio, the clock dials with their tireless coruscations - gave me a sense of invisible rays and forces, a sense that beneath the familiar, visible world of colors and appearances there lay a dark, hidden world of mysterious laws and phenomena.
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History