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fulgēre, ~escere [CL] 1 to shine brightly, gleam; b (fig.); c (w. ref. to reflected light). d (pr. ppl. as adj.) bright, shining. cernens super illa columnam / ossa viri sancti summi ad fastigia caeli / luminis aetherei tota fulgescere nocte Alcuin SS Ebor 365; scilicet ut sacrae lampas fulgesceret edis / posset et umbriferas noctis auferre tenebras / splendens ac pateat summo de stipite fulgens Mir. Nin. 53–5; ideoque gemina simul in domo Dei fulsere luminaria candelabris aureis superposita Wulf. Æthelwold 26; velut stelle ~entes in firmamento Ord. Vit. IX 2 p. 462; super candelabrum ~entem lucernam ‥ donavit Ib. XI 30 p. 271. b ~ebunt justi sicut sol Anselm (Prosl. 25) I 118 (cf. Matth. xiii 43); amicus qui millesies ~encior [ME: schenre] est quam sol AncrR 29; quando caro nostro ~ebit clarior [ME: blikien shenre] quam sol Ib. 141. c armatorum curruum ceu equitum ignito vultu ~entium montem plenum Gildas EB 72; luna et stellae quae non proprio ‥ sed adventitio et a sole mutuato lumine ~ent Bede TR 6 p. 191; cum vallem armis hostium ~ere prospexerunt ‥ stupefacti ‥ G. Mon. III 9; turmam ‥ clipeis galeisque ~entibus insignem Gir. EH I 3. d o torquem ‥ omni electro ~entiorem Ailr. Ed. Conf. 755A. 2 (of white or brightly coloured things) to be bright, resplendent (partly fig.). mulieres ‥ speciosae ‥ quarum corpora marmoreo nitore ~ent Lib. Monstr. I 28; Byrht. V. Ecgwini 361 (v. hyacinthus 3); R. Cant. Malch. 437 (v. exsudare 2). 3 (fig.) to shine w. glory, be conspicuous; b (w. pers. subj.). c (w. erga) to shine on (fig.). omnis scripturae sermo ‥ quasi numeri centenarii pondere ~escit Bede Luke 563; 793 Europa ‥ ut cum stellis ita aeclesiis ornata ~escit Alcuin Ep. 20; cuncta desidero explicare que de hoc sacrato numero [sc. octo] ~escunt Byrht. Man. 214; factum est ut Willelmus, rumore adventuri Cnutonis, qui non fulserat, majore formidine concussus, Elsinum ‥ abbatem ‥ Danemarkiam mitteret W. Malm. Mir. Mariae 157; opes autem dum in usus legitimos erogantur, lumine frui perhibentur, quoniam ex usu opum possessor earum et possessoris diligenti fulcescunt, cum claritatem fame et glorie possessor hac de causa sibi vendicet W. Donc. Aph. Phil. 13. 8. b nonnulli ‥ Gregorium ‥ signis divinis apte suspicantur, que et mira dicuntur, merito fulsisse V. Greg. p. 78; quidam humilitate micat, quidam elymosinis ~et, quidam sapientia claret Alcuin Ep. 272; praesul E. enituerit in pueritia, fulserit in adolescentia, floruerit in juventute ‥ Byrht. V. Ecgwini 353; filii regum ‥ qui solum dignitatibus ~ent absque jurisdiccionis potestate Fortescue NLN II 45. c 1290 reducentes ad sedule recordacionis examen devocionis eximie puritatem qua inclitus vir genitor vester [sc. Argonis] erga Christicolas suis ~ebat temporibus Cl 107 m. 5d.. 4 to flash like lightning, to strike as with a thunderbolt, (in quots., fig., w. ref. to judgement). ecce Dei subito malediccio fulsit in illos Gower VC I 175; 1437 judicibus quacunque auctoritate fulgentibus Reg. Aberbr. II 70.

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