fulgent

Middle English, from Latin fulgēns.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʌld͡ʒənt/

fulgent (comparative more fulgent, superlative most fulgent)

1. Shining brilliantly; radiant.
   • 1846, Newton, The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, translated by Andrew Motte:

     ..and, universally, the greatest and most fulgent tails always arise from comets immediately after their passing by the neighbourhood of the sun.

   • 1849, Charlotte Bronte, Shirley, chapter 22

     Shirley takes life easily: is not that fact written in her eye? In her good-tempered moments, is it not as full of lazy softness as in her brief fits of anger it is fulgent with quick-flashing fire?

fulgent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of fulgeō