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More about fulgurant
Fulgurant comes straight from Latin fulgurant-, the inflectional stem of 蹿耻濒驳耻谤腻苍蝉, the present participle of the verb 蹿耻濒驳耻谤腻谤别, originally an impersonal and intransitive verb meaning 鈥渋t lightens,鈥� then becoming personal and applied to Jupiter or the sky, and finally being applied generally (such as to orators) and meaning 鈥渢o shine, glitter.鈥� There are many Latin words for lightning, e.g., the noun fulmen (from an unrecorded fulgmen), which has its own derivative verb 蹿耻濒尘颈苍腻谤别 (like 蹿耻濒驳耻谤腻谤别, originally an impersonal and intransitive verb), whose past participle 蹿耻濒尘颈苍腻迟耻蝉 is the source of the English verb fulminate. And its present participle 蹿耻濒尘颈苍腻苍蝉 (inflectional stem fulminant-) is the source of the uncommon adjective fulminant, which has largely been replaced by 蹿耻濒尘颈苍补迟颈苍驳.听贵耻濒驳耻谤补苍迟 entered English in the first half of the 17th century.
how is fulgurant used?
To the left the draw-bridge slowly raised its broken span, the soft edges illumined by fulgurant lights of red and green.
The comedy has to arise from the daily disparities in which the playwright made her nest, from the way an irreverent mutter or a fulgurant non sequitur rends the conventional fabric of existence with a lightninglike tear.
heterography
noun
the use of the same letter or combination of letters to represent different sounds, as, in English, the use of s in sit and easy.
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Orthodoxy “correct belief” is to heterodoxy as orthography “correct writing” is to heterography. The combining form hetero– comes from the Greek adjective 丑茅迟别谤辞蝉 鈥渙ne of two, the other, different.鈥� (Even in ancient authors, words prefixed with hetero– were ambiguous: 丑别迟别谤辞诲辞虫铆补 could mean 鈥渄ifference of opinion鈥� and 鈥渆rror in opinion.鈥�) Heterography originally meant 鈥渕isspelling, incorrect spelling, bad spelling鈥� (like awsome, kat, miniscule), then 鈥渋rregular or inconsistent spelling,鈥� which is usual in English: consider the value of c in call and cell, or of –ough in bough, cough, rough, though, or through. Heterography entered English in the late 18th century.
how is heterography used?
… the whole world lies in heresy or schism on the subject of orthography. All climates alike groan under heterography.
Of course everybody recollects the great phonetic mania of some years ago,鈥攁nd how Mr. Pitman and his followers denounced English spelling as heterography, and organized an orthography of their own …
tripping
adjective
proceeding with a light, easy movement or rhythm.
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The adjective tripping 鈥渓ight and quick, nimble鈥� and, by extension, “proceeding with a light, easy movement or rhythm” is a derivative of the verb trip.聽The verb comes via Old French treper, triper, tripper 鈥渢o leap, dance, trample, hit with the feet,鈥� from Low German, and is akin to Middle Dutch trippen 鈥渢o hop, skip.鈥� Tripping entered English in the 16th century.
how is tripping used?
The one before us has a light, tripping melody in 3/8 rhythm, the treatment of which is remarkably fanciful and delicate throughout.
To have the ability to seize upon some little incident of experience and by the exquisite nicety and humor of a few pithy and striking phrases elevate it to the dignity of easy and tripping conversation, that is a feat to which provincial self-complacency can never attain.