Dictionary entry

Coruscation

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Cor′us‐ca″tion (k?r′?s–k?″sh?n), n. [L. coruscatio: cf. F. coruscattion.] 1. A sudden flash or play of light.

A very vivid but exceeding short-lived splender, not to call �t a little coruscation.

Boyle.

2. A flash of intellectual brilliancy.

He might have illuminated his times with the incessant cor��cations of his genius.

I. Taylor.

Syn. — Flash; glitter; blaze; gleam; sparkle.