coruscate

• corruscate (dated)

Borrowed from Latin coruscō (“I flash”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒɹəskeɪt/, /ˈkɔːɹəskeɪt/

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• enPR: kôrʹə-skāt, kŏrʹə-skāt

coruscate (third-person singular simple present coruscates, present participle coruscating, simple past and past participle coruscated)

1. (intransitive) To give off light; to reflect in flashes; to sparkle.

   Synonyms: glean, glimmer, glisten, glitter, radiate, scintillate, sheen, shine, sparkle, twinkle

2. (intransitive, figurative) To exhibit brilliant technique or style.
   • 1981, A. D. Hope, “His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell”, in A Book of Answers‎:

     For truth and tenderness do more / Than coruscating metaphor.

• coruscation

• accouters, accoutres, cocurates, court case

coruscate

1. inflection of coruscare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

coruscate f pl

1. feminine plural of coruscato

• stracuoce

coruscāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of coruscō