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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FUL'GENT, a. Shining; dazzling; exquisitely bright.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the glaring sun" [syn: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin fulgent-, fulgens, present participle of fulg?re to shine; akin to Latin flagrare to burn — more at black Date: 15th century dazzlingly bright ; radiant • fulgently adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. poet. or rhet. shining, brilliant. Etymology: ME f. L fulgere shine

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fulgent Ful"gent, a. [L. fulgens, -entis, p. pr. of fulgere to flash, glitter, shine, akin to Gr. ? to burn. See Phlox, Flagrant.] Exquisitely bright; shining; dazzling; effulgent. Other Thracians . . . fulgent morions wore. --Glower.