Fulgent

Origin

Middle English, from Latin fulgens.

Full definition of fulgent

Adjective

1. Shining brilliantly; radiant.
• 1846, Newton, , 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,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?----